| With the extinction of the Ostrogothic language, the longest-surviving Gothic people finally disappeared from history. |
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| Could those Crimeans really have been the last Goths, continuing to speak Ostrogothic for more than a thousand years after their kingdom fell? |
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| They were succeeded by the Byzantines who got it back after an Ostrogothic interlude. |
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| Incredible as it may seem, a few of their descendants were still speaking Ostrogothic some fifteen centuries later, in 1780, at the time of the American Revolution. |
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| The battle ended with the death of the Ostrogothic king but a victory for his people. |
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| Ostrogothic power was fully established over Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia and the lands to the north of Italy. |
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| Provence was added to the dominion of the new Ostrogothic king Athalaric and through his daughter Amalasuntha who was named regent. |
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| With the attack on Ravenna, Witiges and his men were trapped in the Ostrogothic capital. |
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| For a period of nearly ten years, control for Italy became a seesaw battle between Byzantine and Ostrogothic forces. |
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| Following Amalaric's assassination in 531, another Ostrogothic ruler, Theudis took his place. |
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| After the fall of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, the town came under the protection of the Byzantine Empire. |
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| In 401 or 402 Stilicho faced wars with the Visigothic king Alaric and the Ostrogothic king Radagaisus. |
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| When the Western Empire fell in 476 AD Ravenna became the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. |
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| The Ostrogothic kingdom persisted until 553 under Teia, when Italy returned briefly to Byzantine control. |
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| Within the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy, they kept their own administrators and avoided intermarriage with the Goths. |
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| Highlights include an ornate gold band with emeralds, and an Ostrogothic garnet ring from the late 5th century. |
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| The Ostrogothic king Theodoric stepped in as the guardian of his grandson Amalaric, and preserved for him all his Iberian and a fragment of his Gaul dominion. |
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| Wherever they went, they were joined by the Ostrogothic population, who was allowed to live peacefully in Italy with their Rugian allies under Roman sovereignty. |
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| The weakness of the Ostrogothic position in Italy now showed itself. |
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