| His reforms attracted some of the greatest scholars of his day, including the Anglo-Saxon Alcuin and the Visigoth Theodulf of Orléans. |
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| The Paleo-Christian basilica of Vega del Mar, adjoining San Pedro Alcántara, is from the Visigoth epoch. |
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| Why Alaric? The name refers to the Visigoth King Alaric II who fought some doughty battles against the Franks in the 5th century. |
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| His succesor Abderramán II added 8 archways with columns that were used in old Roman and Visigoth monuments. |
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| The Moors crossed the strait of Gibraltar in 711 and settled in what was then a small Visigoth town perched atop the Alhambra hill. |
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| These sculptures have no parallel in any other peninsular art attributable to the Visigoth period. |
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| Capileirilla, with its 1,380 meters over the sea level, is the highest village of the district and in it the rests of a Visigoth temple from the VIII century are conserved. |
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| Some examples of these include the Ostrogoth kingdom of Theodoric in Italy, the Visigoth kingdom in Spain and, from the end of the sixth century, the Lombard kingdom in Italy. |
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| The villa was founded at the beginning of the 1st century A. D. and remained in use during the Roman and Visigoth period until the 7th century A. D., when it was peacefully abandoned before the Moorish conquest. |
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| Nearby are the Royal Palace, the palace gardens, various statues of different monarchs of the Visigoth and the first years of the reconquista, the Royal Theatre and the statue of Philip IV by Pietro Tacca. |
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| In 411, the Vandals were located on the Cantabrian coast and then in the second half of the sixth century, the Visigoth king Leovigildo territory was conquered in his desire to unify the peninsula under his rule. |
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| The only Vandal governor of Sardinia about whom there is substantial record is the last, Godas, a Visigoth noble. |
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| It also contains a simulation of the mediaeval scriptorium and the three architectural phases of the monastery: Visigoth, Mozarabic and Romanesque. |
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| The sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth in 410 ce had enormous impact on the political structure and social climate of the Western world, for the Roman Empire had provided the basis of social cohesion for most of Europe. |
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| We know about the settlement of these civilisations in Gaucín from the ruins of the Visigoth or late Roman necropolis on the Enmedio hill, southwest of the present village of Gaucín. |
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| There seems to be true that the present city of Vitoria-Gasteiz had its origin in the strength of Victoriaco, built by the Visigoth king Leovigildo in 581 to contain and monitor the Basques. |
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| The presence of three capitals found at the Moralejo is enough evidence to safely say that there must have been a Visigoth enclave here at some time, too. |
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| It was prominent in the Reconquest and at that time the Leonese monarchy, which dated back to Swabian and Visigoth times, extended its dominions towards the South, laying the foundations for the creation Spain. |
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| In 585, the Visigothic King Leovigild invaded the Suebic kingdom of Galicia and defeated it, bringing it under Visigoth control. |
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| Alaric the Visigoth included 3,000 pounds of pepper as part of the ransom he demanded from Rome when he besieged the city in 5th century. |
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| The villa came to an end as a place of residence and business during the fourth century, at the time of the Visigoth invasion. |
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| In Historia Gothorum, the Visigoth Suinthila appears as the first monarch where Hispania is dealt with as a Gothic nation. |
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| After that, the Visigoth kingdom was limited to Hispania, and they never again held territory north of the Pyrenees other than Septimania. |
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| In 711, Visigothic Hispania was very weakened because it was immersed in a serious internal crisis caused by a war of succession to the throne involving two Visigoth suitors. |
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| Sometime in 549, the Visigoth Athanagild sought military assistance from Justinian I and while this aide helped Athanagild win his wars, the Romans had much more in mind. |
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| By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had subjugated the Persian Empire, drastically reduced the size of the Byzantine Empire, and eliminated the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. |
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