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MAJOR GOTHIC TRIBE
Visigothic; Visigothan; West Goths; Noble Goths; Western Goths; Wisigoth; Visigoth; Vesi; Visigothi; Wisigothi; Wisi; History of the Visigoths
  • Europe in 305 AD
  • Alaric]] entering [[Athens]] in 395
  • Visigothic belt buckle. Copper alloy with garnets, glass and inclusion of lapis lazuli. The ''Metropolitan Museum'' of Art (New York)
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  • Europe at the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD
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  • Visigothic Hispania and its regional divisions in 700, before the Muslim conquest
  • [[San Pedro de la Nave]], a Visigothic church in Zamora, Spain
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  • Migrations of the main column of the Visigoths
  • Greatest extent of the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in light and dark orange, {{circa}} 500. From 585 to 711 Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in dark orange, green and white (Hispania)
  • Capital from the Visigothic church of [[San Pedro de la Nave]], [[province of Zamora]]

Visigoth         
·noun One of the West Goths. ·see the Note under Goth.
Visigoth         
['v?z?g??]
¦ noun a member of the branch of the Goths who invaded the Roman Empire between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD and ruled much of Spain until overthrown by the Moors in 711.
Derivatives
Visigothic adjective
Origin
from late L. Visigothus, the first element possibly meaning 'west' (cf. Ostrogoth).

Wikipedia

Visigoths

The Visigoths (; Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king, and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity. The Visigoths first appeared in the Balkans, as a Roman-allied barbarian military group united under the command of Alaric I. Their exact origins are believed to have been diverse but they probably included many descendants of the Thervingi who had moved into the Roman Empire beginning in 376 and had played a major role in defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Relations between the Romans and Alaric's Visigoths varied, with the two groups making treaties when convenient, and warring with one another when not. Under Alaric, the Visigoths invaded Italy and sacked Rome in August 410, and it is during this period that Alaric is first referred to as their king.

The Visigoths were subsequently settled in southern Gaul as foederati to the Romans, a relationship that was established in 418. This developed as an independent kingdom with its capital at Toulouse, and they extended their authority into Hispania at the expense of the Suebi and Vandals who had taken control of large swathes of Roman territory. In 507, Visigothic rule in Gaul was ended by the Franks under Clovis I, who defeated them in the Battle of Vouillé.

It is within what is now Spain and Portugal that the Visigoths created the polity for which they are best remembered. During their governance of Hispania, the Visigoths built several churches that survived, and left many artifacts which have been discovered in increasing numbers by archaeologists in recent years. The Treasure of Guarrazar of votive crowns and crosses are the most spectacular. In or around 589, the Visigoths under Reccared I converted from Arianism to Nicene Christianity, gradually adopting the culture of their Hispano-Roman subjects. Their legal code, the Visigothic Code (completed in 654), abolished the longstanding practice of applying different laws for Romans and Visigoths. Once legal distinctions were no longer being made between Romani and Gothi, they became known collectively as Hispani.

In the century that followed, the region was dominated by the Councils of Toledo and the episcopacy, and little else is known about the Visigoths' history. In 711, an invading force of Arabs and Berbers defeated the Visigoths in the Battle of Guadalete. The Visigoth king, Roderic, and many members of their governing elite were killed, and their kingdom rapidly collapsed. This was followed by the subsequent formation of the Kingdom of Asturias in northern Spain and the beginning of the Reconquista by Christian troops under Pelagius.

They founded the only new cities in western Europe from the fall of the Western half of the Roman Empire until the rise of the Carolingian dynasty. Many Visigothic names are still in use in modern Spanish and Portuguese languages. Their most notable legacy, however, was the Visigothic Code, which served, among other things, as the basis for court procedure in most of Christian Iberia until the Late Middle Ages, centuries after the demise of the kingdom.