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    language" refers to the language of Ulfilas, but the attestations themselves date largely from the 6th century, long after Ulfilas had died.[citation needed] A...
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  • of Durostorum regarding the Arian missionary Ulfilas gives a picture of Arian beliefs. The Arian Ulfilas, who was ordained a bishop by the Arian bishop...
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    Bulgaria (section Military)
    Gothic Bible—the first Germanic language book—was created by Gothic bishop Ulfilas in what is today northern Bulgaria around 381. The region came under Byzantine...
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  • According to Jordanes (fl. 551), the Moesian Goths were taught to write by Ulfilas (311–383). They were, according to him, still present in Moesia, "numerous...
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    the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the banished Arians (such as Bishop Ulfilas) proceeded to convert Germanic pagans to their faith in the 4th century...
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    Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna). The Codex Argenteus, Gothic manuscript of bishop Ulfilas's translation of the Bible, is written (approximate date). Kaleb of Axum...
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    which is best attested today in the surviving translation of the Bible by Ulfilas. Goths were a minority in all the places they lived within the Roman empire...
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    Hans Ferdinand Massmann (category German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    Kaiserchronik (1849–53); of the biblical translations of the Gothic bishop Ulfilas (1855–56) and of Tacitus's Germania (1847). He was also the author of Geschichte...
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    bishop Ulfilas, whose grandparents were Cappadocians taken captive in the raids of the 250s, that the Goths were gradually converted. Ulfilas devised...
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    ISBN 9781843830337. Thompson, E. A. (1961). "The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila". Nottingham Medieval Studies. 5. Brepols: 3–32. doi:10.1484/J.NMS.3.10...
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    Clovis I (category Military saints)
    heresy at the First Council of Nicea in 325, the missionary work of Bishop Ulfilas converted a significant portion of the pagan Goths to Arian Christianity...
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  • Arian priest Ulfilas bishop to lead a proselytizing mission among the Goths across the Danube in 341. Although seven years later Ulfilas was banned from...
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    Taifals (category Late Roman military units)
    Vol. 13. (1923), pp 1–55. Thompson, E. A. The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Wolfram, Herwig. History of the...
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    battle near Adrianople. These Goths are known as Moeso-Goths, for whom Ulfilas made the Gothic translation of the Bible. The Slavs allied with the Avars...
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  • Byzantine Emperor, 361 Antipope Felix II, 365 Aëtius of Antioch, 367 Ulfilas, Apostle to the Goths, 383 Priscillian, 385, considered first Christian...
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    magister militum (master of military) of the western emperor, Flavius Augustus Honorius, with Gothic auxiliaries under Ulfilas, crushed the Gallic rebellion...
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    are the representation of St. Peter's Basilica, or Francis of Assisi and Ulfilas the Arian among Orthodox Saints. In October 2015 the Romanian Orthodox...
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    Western Empire; during the reign of Constantius II, the Arian Gothic convert Ulfilas was consecrated a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and sent to missionize...
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    tradition. In the 4th century, the Gothic bishop, missionary and translator Ulfilas (Wulfila) obtained permission from Emperor Constantius II to immigrate...
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    groups of children symbolizing poetry and science, there is the image of Ulfilas (311–383 AD) a Goth religious ruler, from the northern side of Danube River...
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    versions, namely the Gothic and the Anglo-Saxon" The Gothic version is Ulfilas' translation, and was edited by Junius from the Codex Argenteus. The Anglo-Saxon...
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    conversion remain obscure. The Goths had been converted with the assistance of Ulfilas (a Goth), made bishop on that account. However, the Goths had adopted Arianism...
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    to one's lord. Christian missionaries to Germanic peoples: to the Goths Ulfilas (Gothic, 341-383) to the Lombards Saint Severinus of Noricum (5th century)...
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  • Christian prisoners of war were the first missionaries among the Goths. Ulfilas, himself a descendant of a Cappadocian captive, was ordained bishop "of...
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  • and settled in and around Nicopolis ad Istrum. There the Gothic bishop Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek to Gothic, creating the Gothic alphabet...
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    North. An important linguistic step was made by the Christian convert Ulfilas, who became a bishop to the Thervingi Goths in CE 341; he subsequently...
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    2007b, pp. 150–151, and note 137) Golden 2007b, pp. 128–129 compares Ulfilas's conversions of the Goths to Arianism; Al-Masudi records a conversion of...
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  • Western Goths started in the 3rd century. For instance, the ancestors of Ulfilas, who was consecrated "bishop of the Christians in the Getic land" in 341...
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  • George (3rd–4th century AD) Soldier of the Roman army and Christian martyr Ulfilas (ca. 311 – 383) a Goth who originally came from a Cappadocian Greek family...
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  • in northern Arabia. In return for tribute to the Byzantine Empire and military defense of these eastern territories, such tribes are permitted to settle...
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