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Battles involving the Visigoths (1 C, 24 P) V. Visigothic Kingdom (8 C, 17 P) Visigothic people (6 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Visigoths"
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.
Written descriptive records of the Recceswinth's votive crown were created by French historian Ferdinand de Lasteyrie. [2] He was an eyewitness to the crown and provided sketches and writing in his documentation of the treasure.
Today, scholars identify this as a cultural movement called Gothicismus, which included an enthusiasm for things Old Norse. [245] In medieval and modern Spain, the Visigoths were believed to be the progenitors of the Spanish nobility (compare Gobineau for a similar French idea). By the early 7th century, the ethnic distinction between Visigoths ...
The Gothic War in Spain of 456 was a military operation of the Visigoths commissioned by the West Roman emperor Avitus. [2] This operation consisted of an extensive campaign aimed at reclaiming the Spanish provinces of Lusitania and Betica that were in the hands of the Suebi and threatened Roman power in the provinces of Cartaginensis and Tarraconensis.
The names of only a few of the queens of the Visigoths are known. As the Gothic monarchy was elective, all queens were such only as consorts of their husbands. In his Chronicon John of Biclarum styles Goisuintha "queen" (regina) under the years 579 and 589.
When Hocus Pocus dropped in theaters in 1993, it flopped — but it has since lasted the test of time, becoming a must-watch film every October. Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and ...
Craig Delano Melvin [1] (born May 20, 1979) is an American broadcast journalist and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC.From August 2018 until January 2025, he was a news anchor on NBC's Today, in October 2018, a co-host of Today Third Hour before being made permanent host in January 2019, and in January 2025, he became a co-anchor for the first and second hours of Today.