goths

     

The Goths (Gothic: , Gutans) were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3r and 4th centuries, harried the Roman Empire and later adopted Arianism (an early form of unitarian Christianity). In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy, respectively.

Trivia about goths

  • As leaders of these Germanic people, you'd expect Alaric & Theodoric to wear black & listen to depressing music
  • The Huns only sacked Milan; this group destroyed it less than 100 years later, in 539
  • 6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- & Ostro- halves

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