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The Visigothic invasion of Italy caused land taxes to drop anywhere from one-fifth to one-ninth of their pre-invasion value in the affected provinces. [108] Aristocratic munificence , the local support of public buildings and monuments by the upper classes, ended in south-central Italy after the sack and pillaging of those regions. [ 109 ]
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.
Invasion of the Iberian peninsula by the Vandals (Silingi and Hasdingi) and the Sarmatian Alans. 410 – Rome is sacked by the Visigoths under King Alaric I. 411 – A treaty with Western Roman Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius grants Lusitania to the Alans, Gallaecia to the Suevi and Hasdingi, and Baetica to the Silingi.
He expanded Visigothic control over the southern regions, but he was also murdered after a failed invasion of Africa. Visigothic Spain suffered a civil war under King Agila I (549–554), which prompted the Roman/Byzantine emperor Justinian I to send an army and carve out the small province of Spania for the Byzantine Empire along the coast of ...
A second invasion that same year also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths, and devastated Greece. [citation needed] Later, Alaric led the Sack of Rome (410). [13] The War of Radagaisus was a military conflict in northern Italy caused by the invasion of Radagaisus in
Battles of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania (2 P) Pages in category "Battles involving the Visigoths" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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The Franco-Visigothic Wars were a series of wars between the Franks and the Visigoths, but it also involved the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths and the Romans.The most noteworthy war of the conflict would be the Second Franco-Visigothic War that included the famous Battle of Vouillé and resulted in Frankish annexation of most of Southern France.