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    The name of the Goths is one of the most discussed topics in Germanic philology. It is first recorded by Greco-Roman writers in the 3rd century AD, although...
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  • The Goths were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. In the late 4th century...
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    The Crimean Goths were Greuthungi-Gothic tribes or Western Germanic tribes that bore the name Gothi, a title applied to various Germanic tribes that remained...
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  • Concerning the origin of the Goths before the 3rd century, there is no consensus among scholars. It was in the 3rd century that the Goths began to be described...
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  • The title of King of the Goths (Swedish: Götes konung; Danish: Goternes konge; Latin: gothorum rex) was for many centuries borne by both the kings of...
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    Visigoths (redirect from West Goths)
    "Visigoths were the Goths of the western country." According to Wolfram, Cassiodorus created this east–west understanding of the Goths, which was a simplification...
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    Ostrogoths (redirect from Gleaming Goths)
    played these Pannonian Goths off against the Thracian Goths to their south. However, instead the two groups united after the death of the Thracian leader Theoderic...
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  • The Onomastics of the Gothic language (Gothic personal names) are an important source not only for the history of the Goths themselves, but for Germanic...
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  • the study of literature, but also to attempts to reconstruct the early history of the Goths, and other peoples mentioned in these stories. The earliest...
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    in the 18th century with reference to people, places and things. Name of the Goths Beck, Geuenich & Steuer (1995), s.v. Franken. Oxford English Dictionary...
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    Gothicism (category Cultural history of Sweden)
    were related to the illustrious Goths as the Goths originated from Götaland. The founders of the movement were Nicolaus Ragvaldi and the brothers Johannes...
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    Goths with the emigration of a Gothic king named Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in the distant past. In the account of...
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  • Asterix and the Goths is the third volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was first...
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    Gothic paganism (category Goths)
    polytheism was the original religion of the Goths before their conversion to Christianity. The Goths first appear in historical records in the early 3rd century...
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    The Column of the Goths (Turkish: Gotlar Sütunu) is a Roman victory column dating to the third or fourth century A.D. It stands in what is now Gülhane...
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  • The Thracian Goths, also known as Moesogoths or Moesian Goths, refers to the branches of Goths who settled in Thrace and Moesia, Roman provinces in the...
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    and Hlǫðsqviða), known in English as The Battle of the Goths and Huns and occasionally known by its German name Hunnenschlachtlied, is an Old Norse heroic...
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    (particularly from Latin spelling variations of Gaut- vs. Gōt-, used to represent the name of the Goths) that the Proto-Germanic diphthongs had changed into...
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    the augustus Leo I (ruled 457–474). Under the terms of the treaty, the Pannonian Goths were required to "surrender a hostage of royal descent" to the...
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    victory for the Goths and the death of Emperor Valens. As part of the Gothic War of 376–382, the battle is often considered the start of the events which...
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  • the term "early nomadic" is preferable. Names of the Celts Name of the Goths Names of the Greeks Name of the Franks Szemerényi 1980 Ivantchik 2018. Novák...
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    Greuthungi (category Goths)
    agreement within the Roman empire by 382 AD. The original tribal names of the Goths fell out of use within the empire. Many of the 382 settlers appear...
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    fashion. The music preferred by goths includes a number of styles such as gothic rock, death rock, cold wave, dark wave, and ethereal wave. The Gothic fashion...
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    Ulfilas (redirect from Apostle of the Goths)
    with converting the Goths to Christianity as well as overseeing translation of the Bible into the Gothic language. For the purpose of the translation he...
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    denote the Goths. As described in its legends, Tyrfing was the keenest of all blades; every time it was drawn a light shone from it like a ray of the sun...
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    Geats (redirect from Country of the Geats)
    group, Götamål. The etymology of the name Geat (Old English Geatas, from a Proto-Germanic *Gautaz, plural *Gautōz) is similar to that of Goths and Gutes (*Gutô...
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    battling mall goths for control of the mall. The game's tone is silly and the setting has many puns. The game was inspired by 1990s movies The Craft, Empire...
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    Gothic language (category Languages of the Czech Republic)
    symbols instead of letters. Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus,...
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    Göta älv (category Rivers of Västra Götaland County)
    Norse the river was called the Gautelfr; in Icelandic it is Gautelfur; and in Norwegian it is sometimes rendered as Gøtelv. Name of the Goths Yngen lake...
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  • Gutones (category Goths)
    region in the 3rd century. The name of the Gutones is believed to be a representation of the Goths' own name in their own language, and the archaeological...
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