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Any remaining Ostrogoths in Italy were absorbed into the Lombards, who established a kingdom in Italy in 568. As with other Gothic groups, the history of the peoples who made them up before they reached the Roman Balkans is difficult to reconstruct in detail. However, the Ostrogoths are associated with the earlier Greuthungi. The Ostrogoths ...
The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy (Latin: Regnum Italiae), [5] was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553. Led by Theodoric the Great, the Ostrogoths killed Odoacer, a Germanic soldier and erstwhile leader of the foederati.
Ostrogothic Kingdom (493−553) — Early Middle Ages kingdom of the Germanic Ostrogoths based in the Italian Peninsula, the northwestern Balkans, and into southeastern France See also: Ostrogoths and Ostrogothic Ravenna
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The earliest mention of Östergötland (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) appears in the Getica by the Goth scholar Jordanes. The traditions of Östergötland date back into the Viking Age , the undocumented Iron Age , and earlier, when this region had its own laws and kings (see Geatish kings and Wulfings ).
The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic advanced as far as Marcianopolis in Thrace in 478. [3] The Moesian Goths prepared to cross the Balkan Mountains (Sondis), and were then told that their Roman gold awaited south of the mountain. [ 3 ]
The best recorded group of Heruli established a kingdom north of the Middle Danube, probably including the stretch where Vienna exists today. This kingdom was a neighbour to several other small and short-lived kingdoms in the late 5th century AD and early 6th century, including those of the Sciri , Rugii , Danubian Suebi, and Gepids .
Totila, original name Baduila (died 1 July 552), was the penultimate King of the Ostrogoths, reigning from 541 to 552 AD.A skilled military and political leader, Totila reversed the tide of the Gothic War, recovering by 543 almost all the territories in Italy that the Eastern Roman Empire had captured from his Kingdom in 540.