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The Goths [a] were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. [1] [2] [3] They were first reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is now Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania.
Hansa (used to describe a Roman cohort) [73] In Germanic terms meaning a band (of warriors); a related term is the later used German: Hanse, Dutch: Hanze, Estonian: hansa, Polish: Hanza, Swedish: Hansan for the Hanseatic League
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Greuthungi and Thervingi fought against Valens' Eastern Roman Empire between 376 and 382. [citation needed] Between about 376 and 382 the Gothic War against the Eastern Roman Empire, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople, in which the emperor Valens was killed, is commonly seen as important in the history of the Roman Empire, the first of a series of events over the next century that ...
The Visigoths were never called Visigoths, only Goths, until Cassiodorus used the term, when referring to their loss against Clovis I in 507. Cassiodorus apparently invented the term based on the model of the "Ostrogoths", but using the older name of the Vesi, one of the tribal names which the fifth-century poet Sidonius Apollinaris, had already used when referring to the Visigoths.
[67] Romans were in some ways "reinvogorated" by these new Gothic warriors as "guardians of Romanitas" who, along with their Italo-Roman neighbors created a new "Gothic aegis" for the western empire, while those outside of Theodoric's order were made into veritable "barbarians". [68] Ostrogothic belt buckle, Pavia Civic Museums
Gothic War (376–382) Part of the Gothic Wars and Roman–Germanic Wars: A relief on the Obelisk of Theodosius (389): on the upper tier, Honorius, Arcadius, Theodosius I, and Valentinian II, enthroned and flanked by court officials; on the lower tier, Persians (left) and Goths (right) presenting gifts in supplication [1] [2] [3]
Sarus or Saurus (d. 413 AD) was a Gothic chieftain known as a particularly brave and skillful warrior. He became a commander for the Emperor Honorius. [1] He was known for his hostility to the prominent Gothic brothers-in-law Alaric I and Athaulf, and was the brother of Sigeric, who briefly ruled the Goths in 415.