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Sentence Examples The Franks, Visigoths, and Burgundians all made large inroads into the western empire. These mud flats provided a haven for the people who fled here, such as Huns, Visigoths and other marauders in the fifth century. The Vandals and Visigoths were allowed to live in the Roman Empire as long as they gave a promise to protect the empire from the Huns. This happened in Spain under the Visigoths and in Italy under the Ostrogoths, but both those kingdoms were swept away. My God, if we don't leap up to condemn it, the Dark Ages are here again and the Goths, Visigoths and Vandals will run riot. Both the Visigoths and the Franks, in emulation of the Old Testament, anointed their kings with holy oil. In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths. Later, with the fall of the empire, it was settled by Germanic Visigoths, then Arabs and Moors. Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively ruled the area. Following the decline of the Romans, the Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively set up their own empires. Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect. Peoples as diverse as the Visigoths, Chinese, and Ibos at one time or another derived a significant proportion of their slaves from criminal punishments. The Visigoths had openly aped the imperial court when King Athaulf married Galla Placidia in 411, a marriage celebrated by an official epithalamium delivered by a senator. Honorius, however, refused to appoint Alaric as the commander of the Western Roman Army, and in 409 the Visigoths again surrounded Rome. Although the Visigoths plundered Rome, they treated its inhabitants humanely and burned only a few buildings. In 400, the Visigoths invaded the Western Roman Empire and, although briefly forced back from Italy, in 410 sacked the city of Rome. According to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes. The Visigoths in Spain followed his lead in 589, and the Lombards in Italy in the course of the 7th century. The Franks were able to wrest control of Aquitaine from the Visigoths, but otherwise Theoderic was able to defeat their incursions. In 570 the Arian king of the Visigoths, Leovigild, made his first attack on the Suebi. Show More Sentences Archaeology shows that the Visigoths, unlike the Ostrogoths, were predominantly farmers. Theodoric forged alliances with the Visigoths, Alamanni, Franks and Burgundians, some of which were accomplished through diplomatic marriages. The Iberian Alans were soundly defeated by the Visigoths 418 AD and subsequently surrendered their authority to the Hasdingi Vandals. Anthemius sent his son over the Alps, with an army, to request that the Visigoths return southern Gaul to Roman control. Additionally, minor Germanic tribes, like the Vandals, the Suebi, and the Visigoths established kingdoms in Hispania. Relations between the Romans and the Visigoths were variable, alternately warring with one another and making treaties when convenient. During their governance of the Kingdom of Hispania, the Visigoths built several churches that survive. The Council of Bishops became an important instrument of stability during the ascendancy of the Visigoths. The Visigoths are called Wesi or Wisi by Trebellius Pollio, Claudian, and Sidonius Apollinaris. The Visigoths spoke an eastern Germanic language that was distinct by the 4th century. Throughout the reign of emperor Constantine the Great, the Visigoths continued to conduct raids on Roman territory south of the Danube River. Intense campaigns against the Visigoths followed their victory at Adrianople for upwards of three years. For a brief period, the Visigoths controlled the strongest kingdom in Western Europe. Two of them, the Alans and Siling Vandals were virtually wiped out in 418 by the Visigoths at the order of the Romans. In 585 the Visigoths conquered the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia, and thus controlled almost all of Hispania. Aetius concentrated his limited military resources to defeat the Visigoths again, and his diplomacy restored a degree of order to Hispania. From 511 to 526, the Visigoths were ruled by Theoderic the Great of the Ostrogoths as de jure regent for the young Amalaric. The Visigoths had acquired and cultivated the apparatus of the Roman state but not the ability to make it operate to their advantage. After the city was besieged by the Visigoths in 402, the imperial residence was moved to Ravenna. Prior to the Middle Ages, the Visigoths, as well as other Germanic peoples, followed what is now referred to as Germanic paganism. Show More Sentences After the reign of Leovigild, the legislation of the Visigoths underwent a transformation. The city was conquered by the Visigoths in the early 5th century, becoming for a few years the capital of all Hispania. For the next 300 years and by the year 700, the entire Iberian Peninsula was ruled by the Visigoths. The Roman defences were again overthrown in the early 5th century by the Visigoths and, some 50 years later, by the Huns led by Attila. Julian allied himself with Spain, which had been under the rule of the Visigoths for 200 years after they toppled the Roman Empire in Iberia. In Boston, where fans are sports savvy, I would expect something akin to contests between the Romans, Visigoths and Picts. This type of vandalism hasn't been seen since Rome was 'sacked' by the Visigoths. After defeating the Visigoths in only a few months, the Umayyad Caliphate started expanding rapidly in the peninsula. She would then be alongside William the Conqueror, Genghis Khan, Robert the Bruce's daughter Marjorie and Roderick, the eighth century king of the Visigoths. The cultural and genetic influence of the Visigoths, Franks, et al. However, his general Litorius was badly defeated by the Visigoths at Toulouse, and a new Suevic king, Rechiar, began vigorous assaults on what remained of Roman Hispania. The Visigoths refused, defeated the forces of both Riothamus and Anthemius, and with the Burgundians took over almost all of the remaining imperial territory in southern Gaul. In the early Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was granted to the Visigoths by Rome under the condition that the other germanic tribes would be exiled. Then after the Roman Empire fell the Visigoths forged their own kingdom. Fending off challenges from the Allemanni, Burgundians, and Visigoths, the Frankish kingdom became the nucleus of what would later become France and Germany. Gregory saw Franks, Lombards, and Visigoths align with Rome in religion. After the 5th century, however, the Alans of Gaul were subsumed in the territorial struggles between the Franks and the Visigoths, and ceased to have an independent existence. In 484 the Visigoths established Toledo as the capital of their monarchy. Disappointed, he left the army and was elected reiks of the Visigoths in 395, and marched toward Constantinople until he was diverted by Roman forces. A second invasion that same year also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths. Show More Sentences Having abandoned a plan to occupy Sicily and North Africa after the destruction of his fleet in a storm, Alaric died as the Visigoths were marching northward. He allied with the Franks by his marriage to Audofleda, sister of Clovis I, and married his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Visigoths, Vandals and Burgundians. This usage, however, was adopted by the Visigoths themselves in their communications with the Byzantine Empire and was in use in the seventh century. In order to improve their chances against the Roman Empire the Ostrogoths and Visigoths began again to unite in what became a loose confederation of Germanic peoples. Absent the unifying presence of Theodoric, the Ostrogoths and Visigoths were unable to consolidate their realms despite their common Germanic kinship. This image must have had some basis in truth, but it is not very surprising that the later Visigoths of Iberia had fallen away from Salvian's somewhat idealistic picture. This usage, however, was adopted by the Visigoths themselves in their communications with the Byzantine Empire and was still in use in the 7th century. The Visigoths' second great king, Euric, unified the various quarreling factions among the Visigoths and, in 475, forced the Roman government to grant them full independence. At his death, the Visigoths were the most powerful of the successor states to the Western Roman Empire and were at the very height of their power. At this point, the Visigoths were also the dominant power in the Iberian Peninsula, quickly crushing the Alans and forcing the Vandals into north Africa. During their long reign in Spain, the Visigoths were responsible for the only new cities founded in Western Europe between the 5th and 8th centuries. Oddly enough, despite that the Visigoths reigned in Spain for upwards of 250 years, there are almost no remnants of the Gothic language borrowed into Spanish. Following Roman rule, there were successive conquests of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica by the Vandals, the Suebi and the Visigoths during the 5th and 6th centuries. Despite the fact that the Visigoths ruled what is now Spain for upwards of 250 years, there are almost no recognizable Gothic words borrowed into Spanish. Examples from Classical Literature The site was originally occupied by a Roman 'castellum' which the Visigoths also used as a citadel. The Visigoths obtained permission to cross the Danube and settle in Moesia. Find more words! 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