In 401 or 402 Stilicho faced wars with the Visigothic king Alaric and the Ostrogothic king Radagaisus. |
Could those Crimeans really have been the last Goths, continuing to speak Ostrogothic for more than a thousand years after their kingdom fell? |
Following Amalaric's assassination in 531, another Ostrogothic ruler, Theudis took his place. |
With the attack on Ravenna, Witiges and his men were trapped in the Ostrogothic capital. |
For a period of nearly ten years, control for Italy became a seesaw battle between Byzantine and Ostrogothic forces. |
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. |