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The title of King of the Goths (Swedish: Götes konung; Danish: Goternes konge; Latin: gothorum rex) was for many centuries borne by both the kings of Sweden and the kings of Denmark. In the Swedish case, the reference is to Götaland (land of the Geats ); in the Danish case, to the island of Gotland (land of the Gutes ).
Reiks (Gothic: ๐๐ด๐น๐บ๐; pronunciation /ri:ks/; Latinized as rix) is a Gothic title for a tribal ruler, often translated as "king". In the Gothic Bible, it translates to the Greek árchลn (แผρχων). [1] It is presumably translated as basiliskos (βασιλฮฏσκος "petty king") in the Passio of Sabbas the Goth. [2]
Magnus the Strong, king of West Götaland (reigned 1125–1130) Kol, king of East Götaland (see Inge the Younger) (early 12th century) Karl Sverkersson, rex Gothorum before becoming king of all of Sweden. From the reign of King Magnus Ladulås until the accession of Charles XVI Gustav, Sweden's monarchs were officially titled "King of the Goths".
The Goths were settled mostly in northern Italy, and kept themselves largely apart from the Roman population, a tendency reinforced by their different faiths: the Goths were mostly Homoian Christians (''Arians"), while the people they ruled over were adherents of Chalcedonian Christianity. [20]
The new laws applied to both Gothic and Hispano-Roman populations who had been under different laws in the past, and it replaced all older codes of law. [23] The code included old laws by past kings, such as Alaric II in his Breviarium Alarici, and Leovigild, but many were also new laws. The code was based almost wholly on Roman law, with some ...
Meanwhile, Gothic raids on the Roman Empire continued, [126] In 250–51, the Gothic king Cniva captured the city of Philippopolis and inflicted a devastating defeat upon the Romans at the Battle of Abrittus, in which the Roman Emperor Decius was killed. [127] [104] This was one of the most disastrous defeats in the history of the Roman army. [104]
[15] [2] Jordanes also writes that the area settled by the Goths under king Berig was still called Gothiscandza. [66] This name means "Gothic-Scandia" or "Gothic coast". [2] In the 8th century, the area of Septimania in the Carolingian Empire was known as Gotia. This area had earlier been under the control of Visigoths.
The Swede Johannes Magnus around the same time as Aventinus, wrote that Gothus or Gethar, also known as Gogus or Gog, was one of Magog's sons, who became first king of the Goths (Geats) in Gothaland. Magnus separately listed Gaptus as son and successor of Berig, first king of the Goths south of the Baltic.