VISIGOTHS

Visigoths

The Visigoths and Ostrogoths were branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths. These tribes flourished and spread during the late Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, or the Migration Period. The Visigoths emerged from earlier Gothic groups who had invaded the Roman Empire, beginning in 376, and had defeated the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The Visigoths under Alaric I invaded Italy and sacked Rome in 410; by this time, at least the elite were Arian Christians, but regarded as heretics by the Catholic Church. Their long history of migration led the Visigoths to compare themselves to the Biblical Hebrew people ...

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