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The Goths (Gothic: 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, romanized: Gutþiuda; Latin: Gothi, Greek: Γότθοι, translit. Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
5. Apr. 2024 · Goth, member of a Germanic people whose two branches, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, for centuries harassed the Roman Empire. According to their own legend, the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Possible Origin & Migration
- The Goths Prior to Engagements with Rome
- Language & Religion
- The Goths & Rome
- Athanaric and Fritigern: The Gothic Civil War
- Attila The Hun
- Legacy
Jordanes, who had a Gothic heritage, claims that the Goths came from Scandinavia, writing: Historians such as Peter Heather have identified Gothiscandza with Gdansk in modern Poland, and this theory is generally supported by archaeological evidence, although it is not accepted by all scholars, most notably Michael Kulikowski. Kulikowski claims that...
The Roman historian Tacitus, who first encountered the Goths in Germany, described them as a cohesive race of Germanic people, indigenous to their land, who were fierce fighters. He writes: This description fits with later accounts of the Goths, but historians suggest caution in accepting that the later Goths were the same people as those Tacitus w...
The Gothic language is known through the missionary Ulfilas' translation of the Bible from Greek into Gothic c. 350. The language was Teutonic in nature but seems to have differed significantly from other Germanic languages spoken in the region. The Gothic Bible's translation is based on uncial Greek (a form of script which uses only capital letter...
The first Gothic invasion of Rome took place in 238 when they attacked the city of Histia in modern-day Hungary, which had been part of the Roman Empire since 30. What drove the Goths to this invasion is not fully understood but, most probably, it was simply the weakness of the empire at that time that made provincial citieslike Histia attractive t...
A major division among the Thervingi Goths occurred with the Gothic Civil War of the early 370's fought between Athanaric and Fritigern. Wolfram writes, "the confused tradition [of records of this war] does not reveal the exact date" (70). Athanaric was king of the Goths (claimed by some sources as the first king) a position known as a reiks(pronou...
It is popularly understood that the Goths were pushed into the regions of Rome by the Huns, and while this is true for the years c. 376-378, it is not an accurate portrayal of Goth-Roman relations in their entirety. There were many Goths, as already noted, living in Roman provinces and serving in the Roman army. The later king of the Visigoths, Ala...
The historian Herwig Wolfram writes: Wolfram points out that no other nationality, such as the Celts, seems to carry as much emotional and historical baggage as the Goths. They are either traditionally blamed for the destruction of the civilizationof the Roman Empire that plunged western culture into a "dark age" or as heroes who refused to bear th...
- Joshua J. Mark
The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify and spread throughout the world. Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from 19th-century Gothic fiction and from horror films.
Origin of the Goths. Concerning the origin of the Goths before the 3rd century, there is no consensus among scholars. [1] [2] It was in the 3rd century that the Goths began to be described by Roman writers as an increasingly important people north of the lower Danube and Black Sea, in the area of modern Romania, Republic of Moldova ...
The original Goths were a Germanic people who played a crucial role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of medieval Europe. In 410, a Gothic army led by Alaric sacked the imperial city of Rome, and at the end of the fifth century kingdoms ruled by Visigoths and Ostrogoths dominated much of the post-Roman West.
14. Mai 2018 · Visigothic Code. Legacy of the Visigoths. Sources. The Goths were a nomadic Germanic people who fought against Roman rule in the late 300s and early 400s A.D., helping to bring about the downfall...
