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Sentence Examples Like the majority of them it was originally recorded by artists who may be slightly annoyed if you described them as goths. It will appeal to fans of all rock and heavy metal bands, and will also stock some items of interest to goths. Downtown was jammed with punks, new romantics, mods, goths, all seemingly involved in an Important Subversive Project. These were the goths of 25 years ago, reunited to see their British band who started it all. It is probably just my twisted sense of humour that finds the idea of thousands of goths being subjected to this record quite hilarious. He's here with the results of a special investigation into the world of goths, witches, and wiccans. I haven't watched much manga, but the villain did strike me as one of these archetypal brooding nhilistic goths who turn up in manga a lot. Gross is inviting goths, punkers, ravers, metalheads, skaters, gamers and other so-called outsiders to be part of a new discussion group for seekers and believers. We are worried about neds targeting goths at Gig on the Green. He's blasted the Blairite champagne socialists and denounced dog owners, tattooed goths, and the Presbyterians who believe Lutheranism is a form of crazed hedonism. The idea may be unique in Calgary, but Gross says there are several ministries for goths and punks in the U.S., and some places have entire churches devoted to them. You had your goths and art school kids, big on keyboards and eyeliner. A couple of girlie goths walked out of the toilet, all mascara, fish-nets and northern accents, looking even sillier in this extremely ungothic boozer. Tim and Grish take their lives as goths very seriously. But when they meet super-goth Balfus, they get more than they bargained for. Black lipstick on their cinnamon rings? In the third century B.C., Scythians were displaced by Sarmatians, who in turn were overrun by waves of Germanic Goths. Finally, in 538, he received a foreign command when he was sent to Italy against the Goths. Rome has just been sacked, the Goths are ravaging Italy and the western half of his empire, where Britain lies, has been supporting a pretender. Beginning in the third century A.D., tribes of Goths, Huns, and Avars invaded the region. Boethius became head of all the government and court services under Theodoric, king of Italy and of the Goths. Not until 562 did he finally take Brixia and Verona from the Goths and inflict a crushing defeat on the combined Frankish and Gothic armies. Show More Sentences Soon after 500, he served the court of Theodoric, king of the Goths, who ruled Italy. Could those Crimeans really have been the last Goths, continuing to speak Ostrogothic for more than a thousand years after their kingdom fell? These groups are collectively termed the Goths and were prominent among the so-called barbarians who destroyed the Western Roman Empire. But the Crimean Goths were not speaking Visigothic, or even a dialect derived from Visigothic. It is not comely and not of their nature for Goths to hurry, so Morgan takes her time, making sure she is last to get up and leave. Goths had their own Arian churches, and surviving documents written by clerics show that Gothic was spoken there. Scipio took it from the Carthaginians, and it remained Roman territory until A. D.412, when the Goths became masters of Spain. Although its harbour was left undefended, often causing shortages, the Goths could not capture Rome. Like Teds, Mods, Rockabillies, Punks, Ravers and Goths, gay male fetish queens do not change much over the years. In the third century A.D., Asiatic Huns replaced the Goths and were in turn conquered by Turkic Avars in the sixth century. His rule as king of the Goths and Romans in Italy was recognized by the eastern emperor Anastasius, Zeno's successor. The triple line of fortifications constructed on the land side in the fifth century had held off attacks by Goths, Persians, Avars, Bulgars, Russians, and especially Arabs. With this in view, he sent for his countrymen, the Goths, from their own homes to come to the Roman territories, and appointed his relatives to be tribunes and chiliarchs. The Emos regard themselves as a cool, young sub-set of the Goths. In the late fourth century, the Huns arrived from the east and invaded the region controlled by the Goths. Beckwith suggests that the entire Hunnic thrust into Europe and the Roman Empire was an attempt to subdue independent Goths in the west. When peace treaties were negotiated with the Romans, the Goths demanded free trade. Jordanes says the Goths upon their arrival in this area expelled the Ulmerugi. Within the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy, they kept their own administrators and avoided intermarriage with the Goths. The relationship between the language of the Crimean Goths and Ulfilas's Gothic is less clear. Show More Sentences The mausoleum was despoiled by the Goths in 410 during the Sack of Rome, and his ashes were scattered. It ended with an overwhelming victory for the Goths and the death of Emperor Valens. The bodyguard leaped out the window and told the Goths who was inside, but it was too late. Under the brilliant command of Totila, the Goths were able to reassert themselves to a degree. Around AD 238, the Goths make their first clear impact on Roman history, having moved from the Baltic sea to the area of the modern Ukraine. For the next couple hundred years, the restless Goths were a menace to the Roman Empire. The Goths and Vandals were only the first of many waves of invaders that flooded Western Europe. The Khazars also exacted tribute from the Alani, Magyars, various Slavic tribes, the Crimean Goths, and the Greeks of Crimea. In the late winter of 332, Constantine campaigned with the Sarmatians against the Goths. In 376 the East faced an enormous barbarian influx across the Danube, mostly Goths who were refugees from the Huns. In consequence of this, our troops in their engagements with the Goths were often overwhelmed with their showers of arrows. Goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year Alaric was accepted as a leader of Theodosius's Gothic troops and this rebellion was over. Maximus boasted to Ambrose of the numbers of barbarians in his forces, and hordes of Goths, Huns, and Alans followed Theodosius. The Italian areas which had been compelled to support the Goths had most of their taxes remitted for several years. Stilicho attempted to restore Roman authority in the late 390s, but in 401 he took Roman troops from Britain to fight the Goths. The settlement did not go smoothly, and when Roman officials mishandled the situation, the Goths began to raid and plunder. In 264, the Goths reached Galatia and Cappadocia, and Gothic pirates landed on Cyprus and Crete. In the process, the Goths seized enormous booty and took thousands into captivity. The mills were in use in 537 AD when the Goths besieging the city cut off their water supply. However, they soon lost these newly acquired possessions to another East Germanic tribe in the form of the Goths. Show More Sentences The Goths were Germanic, but Theodoric sought to revive Roman culture and government and allowed freedom of religion. Thus they arguably had a greater effect on their region than the Goths, the Franks or the Saxons had on theirs. Moreover, Procopius says that the earlier name of Scandinavia was Thule and that it was the home of the Goths. In contrast to Strabo, he knows that the Goths live around the Vistula, but these are definitely Germans. A force of Goths under Catualda, a Marcomannian exile, bought off the nobles and seized the palace. In the third century Jordanes claims that the Marcomanni paid tribute to the Goths, and that the princes of the Quadi were enslaved. Some medieval chroniclers referred to the Geats as Goths and confused the two. Magnus separately listed Gaptus as son and successor of Beric, first king of the Goths south of the Baltic. According to Jordanes' Getica, the Hasdingi came into conflict with the Goths around the time of Constantine the Great. In 400 or 401, Hunnic raids forced many Germanic tribes such as the Goths to migrate Westward. The Goths appear to have established a loose political hegemony over the existing tribes in the region. It has been suggested that the Goths maintained contact with southern Sweden during their migration. In the first attested incursion in Thrace, the Goths were mentioned as Boranoi by Zosimus, and then as Boradoi by Gregory Thaumaturgus. Learning of the approach of Claudius, the Goths first attempted to directly invade Italy. As word spread, the Goths rioted throughout the region, and large numbers were killed. The Carpi found themselves squeezed between the advancing Goths and the Roman province of Dacia. Although the Huns successfully subdued many of the Goths, who joined their ranks, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube. The name of the Gutes in Old West Norse is Gotar, which is same as that used for the Goths. Old Norse sources such as the sagas do not distinguish between the Goths and the Gutes. In accordance, the Old East Norse term for both Goths and Gutes seems to have been Gutar. Show More Sentences Only the Goths and Gutes bear this name among all the Germanic tribes, even if Geat is closely related. They reaching Scythia on the coast of the Black Sea in modern Ukraine, where Goths left their archaeological traces in the Chernyakhov culture. Honorius then incited the Roman population to massacre tens of thousands of wives and children of foederati Goths serving in the Roman military. The Goths suffered setbacks against the Huns, made a mass migration across the Danube, and fought a war with Rome. According to Claudian, Stilicho was in a position to destroy the Goths when he was ordered by Arcadius to leave Illyricum. On 29 August 492, the Goths were about to assemble enough ships at Rimini to set up an effective blockade of Ravenna. This terminology therefore dropped out of use after the Goths were displaced by the Hunnic invasions. Many of the Goths migrated into Roman territory in the Balkans, while others remained north of the Danube under Hunnic rule. He was at once national king of the Goths, and successor, though without any imperial titles, of the West Roman emperors. On the death of Theodoric in 526, the eastern and western Goths were once again divided. All the forms of the Roman administration went on, and the Roman policy and culture had great influence on the Goths themselves. The Saracens crossed the mountains to claim Ardo's Septimania, only to encounter the Basque dynasty of Aquitaine, always the allies of the Goths. In the early summer of 268, the Emperor Gallienus halted their advance into Italy, but then had to deal with the Goths. In the 5th century, Theodoric the Great tried to recruit Crimean Goths for his campaigns in Italy, but few showed interest in joining him. By the 16th century, the existence of Goths in Crimea had become well known to European scholars. Since Italy had a population of several million, the Goths did not constitute a significant addition to the local population. This would explain why the latter terms dropped out of use shortly after 400, when the Goths were displaced by the Hunnic invasions. Long struggles between the neighboring Vandili and Lugii people with the Goths may have contributed to their earlier exodus into mainland Europe. Throughout the third and fourth centuries there were numerous conflicts and exchanges of varying types between the Goths and their neighbors. In 238, the Goths invaded across the Danube into the Roman province of Moesia, pillaging and exacting payment through hostage taking. Show More Sentences When subsidies to the Goths were stopped, the Goths organized and in 250 joined a major barbarian invasion led by the Germanic king, Kniva. When the city of Pityus fell to the Goths in 256, the Goths were further emboldened. By 332, relations between the Goths and Romans were stabilized by a treaty but this was not to last. The treaty struck with the Goths was to be the first foedus on imperial Roman soil. It was created to regulate the Romans and Goths living in Euric's kingdom, where Romans greatly outnumbered Goths. Euric, for instance, forbade intermarriage between Goths and Romans, which was already expressed in the Codex Theodosianus. During the first centuries of Visigothic rule, Romans were ruled by different laws than Goths were. Now that the formerly Roman population and the Goths shared the same faith King Reccared issued laws that equally applied to both populations. Now Mars has always been worshipped by the Goths with cruel rites, and captives were slain as his victims. In the 4th century some Eastern Germanic tribes, notably the Goths, an East Germanic tribe, adopted Arianism. However, a Hunnic army bypassed the Goths and attacked them from the rear, forcing Athanaric to retreat towards the Carpathian Mountains. The ensuing war between the Goths and the Romans lasted for more than five years. Many Huns were employed as mercenaries by both East and West Romans and by the Goths. In 451, Attila's forces entered Gaul, accumulating contingents from the Franks, Goths and Burgundian tribes en route. The Amali Goths would revolt the same year under Valamir, allegedly defeating the Huns in a separate engagement. During the negotiations, a Hun in service of the Romans named Chelchel persuaded the enemy Goths to attack their Hun overlords. The Romans, under their General Aspar and with the help of his bucellarii, then attacked the quarreling Goths and Huns, defeating them. During the 2nd century the Goths of southern Russia discovered a newfound taste for gold figurines and objects inlaid with precious stones. As regards the original Goths, also keep in mind that they ended their existence as a people as the lawgivers in preMuslim Spain. Examples for those are Theodoric the great, king of the eastern Goths in Italy, and Clufius, the first king of Europeanizes in Gallia. Show More Sentences On 6 August, reconnaissance informed Valens that about 10,000 Goths were marching towards Adrianople from the north, about 25 kilometers away. The Goths, except for their cavalry, defended their wagon circle, inside of which were their families and possessions. The fields were burnt by the Goths to delay and harass the Romans with smoke, and negotiations began for an exchange of hostages. Valens' men shot arrows from the second floor to defend the cottage and in response the Goths set the cottage on fire. Ammianus refers to a great number of Roman soldiers who had not been let into the city and who fought the besieging Goths below the walls. In 402, the city was besieged by the Goths and the Imperial residence was moved to Ravenna. It might also have been a conflation of the word Gauti with a gloss of Goths. See further in the Wikipedia articles King of the Goths and King of the Wends. After learning of Sebastian's success against the Goths, and of Gratian's victory over the Alamanni, Valens was more than ready for a victory of his own. After the Romans withdrew from the territory of Dacia, the local population was subjected to constant invasions by the migratory tribes, among the first being the Goths. The Goths were also watching the Romans, and on 8 August Fritigern sent an emissary to propose a peace and an alliance in exchange for some Roman territory. Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. Ulfilas's parents were captured by plundering Goths in the village of Sadagolthina in the city district of Parnassus and were carried off to Transdanubia. Bury, counted the Bastarnae along with the Goths, Vandals, Gepids, Burgundians, Lombards, Rugians, Heruls and Sciri among the eastern Germanic peoples. Goths and vampyres warily tread, near where the Griffin lays his head. Generally, the Goths were abused by the Romans, who began forcing the now starving Goths to trade away their children so as to stave off starvation. These Alans successfully invaded the Goths in 375 together with the Huns. Compared with other barbarian tribes, the Goths had the longest time of contact with Roman civilization, from migration in 376 to trade interactions years beforehand. After the Hunnic empire disintegrated, part of the Scirii joined with the Western Goths and the Eastern Goths, while others became foederati in the Roman empire. Tacitus characterized the Rugii as well as the neighboring Goths and Lemovii saying they carried round shields and short swords, and obeyed their regular authority. Show More Sentences They were closely related to, or a subdivision of, the Goths. During the reign of king Leovigild an attempt was made to unite the laws regulating the lives of Goths and Romans into a revised law code, Codex Revisus. The first lands taken over by the Thervingi Goths were in Moldavia, and only during the fourth century did they move in strength down into the Danubian plain. Fearing rebellion, Julian lured the Goths into the confines of urban streets from which they could not escape and massacred soldiers and civilians alike. The first Greek references to the Goths call them Scythians, since this area along the Black Sea historically had been occupied by an unrelated people of that name. Instead, Rufinus attempted to negotiate with Alaric in person, which only aroused suspicions in Constantinople that Rufinius was in league with the Goths. In western Europe, Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the barbarian Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths, Lombards and Vandals. In 397 Stilicho crossed the sea to Greece and succeeded in trapping the Goths in the mountains of Pholoe, on the borders of Elis and Arcadia in the peninsula. What he meant was that the Goths, being heretics, were at once enemies of the true God and inferior to the orthodox Franks in their supernatural backing. Initially, the Byzantines were successful, but under the leadership of Totila, the Goths reconquered most of the lost territory until Totila's death at the Battle of Taginae. After they subjugated the Alans, the Huns and their Alan auxiliaries started plundering the wealthy settlements of the Greuthungi, or eastern Goths, to the west of the Don. Those who decided to resist marched to the Dniester River which was the border between the lands of the Greuthungi and the Thervingi, or western Goths. Jordanes states that the earliest migrating Goths sailed from what is now Sweden to what is now Poland, and replaced inhabitants there, forming the Wielbark culture. He also mentions that the Goths had previously defeated the Burgundians. The 6th century Byzantine historian Procopius noted that the Goths, Gepidae and Vandals were physically and culturally identical, suggesting a common origin. It was Justinian's intention to recover Italy and Rome from the Goths. Sometime during the spring of 537, the Goths marched on Rome with upwards of 100,000 men under the leadership of Witiges and laid siege to the city, albeit unsuccessfully. In 376 AD, displaced by the invasions of the Huns, the Goths, led by Alavivus and Fritigern, asked to be allowed to settle in the Eastern Roman Empire. A list of peoples who were said to fear Chilperic's power is given and includes the Frisians, as well as the Suebi, Goths, Basques, Danes, Jutes, Saxons, and Britons. By turning back at what he thought was the limit of Germany, he not only missed the Balts, but did not discover that more Germans, the Goths, had moved into the Baltic area. Show More Sentences Like the Huns, the Goths in Crimea never regained their lost glory. During the late 5th and early 6th century, the Crimean Goths had to fight off hordes of Huns who were migrating back eastward after losing control of their European empire. Jordanes, in his Origins and Deeds of the Goths, describes the Silures. They were exploited by corrupt officials rather than effectively resettled, and they took up arms, joined by more Goths and by some Alans and Huns. In the 16th century, an Imperial envoy in Suleiman's court Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq reported having had a conversation with two Goths in Constantinople. There are numerous other sources referring to the existence of Goths in Crimea following Busbecq's report, though none providing details of their language or customs. The Goths, meanwhile, lived under their own laws and customs. Before them, Radagaisus led between 200,000 and 400,000 Goths in Italy in 406 perhaps too high as ancient sources routinely inflated the numbers of tribal invaders. The Eastern Roman Empire succeeded in buying off the Goths with tribute. When Alans had moved to Europe, these Goths occupied the part of the former Alania in Crimea and were called Gothoalans, Russian occupying another part were called Roxolans. In 270, the Roman authorities began to withdraw their forces south of the Danube, especially from the Roman Dacia, due to the invading Goths and Carpi. Examples from Classical Literature Goths, Vandals, huns, each in their own good time had joined in the attack. This, I trow, was done by those evil spirits that begat them, for the injury of the Goths. It may be well to relate how we do it, for the benefit of other inchoate Goths. The Goths, accustomed for generations to their tameless freedom, have not acquired the habit of obedience to the laws. During the reign of the Goths it was likewise an official and not a nobiliary title. When the Goths entered the Roman Empire what did they ask of the inhabitants? It had nothing to do with the Goths, but was a local European outgrowth of the Romanesque. Much harm was done by the Goths and Vandals of the nineteenth century. Never shall any weapon of leafy wood crush the Goths with direr augury. The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. The next scheme of justinian was the recovery of Italy from the Goths. The abusive term for all that is old and rude is already Gothic, Goths. This signal victory of the Goths was followed by a siege of Adrianople. The Gauls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others, had it for a time. And now far across the sea a brave man of the Goths, Beowulf by name, heard of the doings of Grendel, and he made up his mind to come to the aid of King Hrothgar. The Romans, encumbered by heavy and suffocatingly hot armor, soon abandoned the field en masse, fleeing for their lives with the victorious Goths in hot pursuit. 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