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Visigoths
Visigoths (West Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of Germans . Having settled in the region W of the Black Sea in the 3d cent. AD, the Goths soon split into two divisions, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths. In the Roman Empire By the 4th cent. the Visigoths... Read more
Avitus
Avitus , d. 456?, Roman emperor of the West (455-56). He was proclaimed emperor in Gaul with the support of the Visigoths but was deposed by Ricimer . He was elected bishop of Placentia but died soon afterward. ... Read more
Recared
Recared (Recared I) , d. 601, Visigothic king in Spain (586-601), son and successor of Leovigild . Although before his accession he had greatly distinguished himself in warfare with the Franks, he did not pursue his father's policy of conquest. He did make war on the Basques and repulsed Frankish... Read more
Éboli
Éboli , town (1991 pop. 33,964), in Campania, S Italy. It is an agricultural and market center. A medieval castle dominates the town. Nearby are the ruins of Eburum, which was colonized by the Greeks, flourished under the Romans, and was destroyed (5th cent. AD) by the Visigoths. ... Read more
Valens
Valens , c.328-378, Roman emperor of the East (364-78). Brother and coregent of Valentinian I , Valens followed in most respects his brother's policies but, unlike him, embraced Arian Christianity (see Arianism ). An intolerant man, he sporadically persecuted orthodox Christians. At the beginning ... Read more
Saint Innocent I
Saint Innocent I d. 417, pope (401-17), an Italian; successor of St. Anastasius I. A powerful champion of papal supremacy in the entire Church, he upheld St. John Chrysostom and condemned Pelagius. His 36 surviving decretal letters are an important source for canon law. He vainly tried to prevent... Read more
Túy
Túy , town (1990 pop. 16,248), Pontevedra prov., NW Spain, in Galicia, on the Miño River, opposite the Portuguese town of Valença do Minho. The capital of the Visigothic King Witiza (early 8th cent.), Túy played later an important role in the wars between Castile and Port... Read more
Dark Ages
Dark Ages The 5th to the 8th centuries in Europe. Following the collapse of the Roman empire, many Germanic tribes crossed through Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and North Africa, often attacking and destroying towns. Rome was sacked on three successive occasions. Many tribes formed their own kingdo... Read more
Cosenza
Cosenza , city (1991 pop. 86,664), capital of Cosenza prov., Calabria, S Italy, at the confluence of the Busento and Crati rivers. It is an agricultural and secondary industrial center. Manufactures, produced mainly by individual artisans, include textiles and furniture. The chief city of the ancien... Read more
Ulfilas
Ulfilas or Wulfila [Gothic,=little wolf], c.311-383, Gothic bishop, translator of the Bible into Gothic. He was converted to Christianity at Constantinople and was consecrated bishop (341) by the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia. Ulfilas then returned to the Visigoths as a missionary; it was ... Read more

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Visigoths
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Visigoths (West Goths), division of the Goths, one of the...soon split into two divisions, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths. In the Roman Empire By the 4th cent. the Visigoths were at the borders of the East Roman Empire, raiding...
Alaric
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...sack of Rome in 410. The Visigoths had been driven from their...neighboring Huns. After the Visigoths inflicted a massive defeat...attacked in July 410 by Sarus, a Visigoth loyal to the Emperor, Alaric...places, perhaps because the Visigoths were Christians, the population...
Honorius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...West and defended the empire against the Visigoths. Honorius married (398) Stilicho...his general. Alaric I , king of the Visigoths, invaded Italy again in 409 and installed...s death left Ataulf in command of the Visigoths, who then left Italy to invade Gaul...
Spain
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...prosperous province. From c .ad 400, Germanic tribes swept into Spain. The Visigoths controlled s Spain from the 5th to 8th century. In 711, the Moors defeated the Visigoths. Spain was rapidly conquered (except Asturias and the Basque Country...
Attila
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...their pressure on the Vandals, and Attila moved to attack the Visigoths. At the same time the sister of the emperor Valentinian III...time hostage of the Huns, created an alliance of Romans and Visigoths, and when the Huns invaded Gaul in 451, he defeated them...
Ulfilas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Ulfilas (ca. 311-ca. 382), Arian bishop of the Visigoths, or West Goths, translated at least part of the Bible...for historical background is Edward A. Thompson, The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila (1966). □
Galicians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...series of provinces. Galicia as a kingdom was founded by the Germanic Suevi in 409 after the Visigoths drove them into the peninsula. The Visigoths defeated the Suevi in 585. Early in the eighth century armies from North Africa began their...
Ataulf
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...abandoned Alaric's scheme of southward expansion and led the Visigoths out of Italy into S Gaul (France) in 412. He sought...cut off from supplies, led his people into N Spain (see Visigoths ). He was assassinated at Barcelona.
Valens
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the revolt of Procopius. He initiated warfare against the Visigoths under Athanaric and defeated them in 369. His attitude toward...was indecisive, but in 376 peace was made. He admitted the Visigoths under Fritigern into the empire. Dissatisfied with the Romans...
Clovis I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...champion of orthodox Christianity against the Arian heretics, the Burgundians, and the Visigoths. He attacked the Burgundians (500) at Dijon and the Visigoths (507) under Alaric II at Vouillé. When he died, he was master of most...

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Visigoths
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Visigoths (or western Goths ) A people originating in the Baltic area. Migrations in search of...the CATALAUNIAN FIELDS in 451. Frankish and Muslim invaders defeated and absorbed the Visigoths in the following two centuries.
Visigoth
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Visigoth a member of the branch of the Goths who invaded the Roman Empire between the 3rd and 5th centuries ad and ruled much of Spain until...
Huns
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Europe and conquered the OSTROGOTHS . In 376 they drove the VISIGOTHS into Roman territory and early in the 4th century themselves...on them in 451 at the CATALAUNIAN FIELDS by the Romans and Visigoths under the command of Aetius. However that did not prevent...
Recared
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Recared (d. 601),King of the Visigoths. He was associated with his father in governing the country (most of Spain) from 573...the country, since the Catholic clergy and nobles were more powerful than the Arian Visigoths.
Dark Ages
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...their own kingdoms (for example, Vandals in North Africa; Visigoths in Spain; Ostrogoths and Lombards in northern Italy; FRANKS...France and western Germany; ANGLO-SAXONS in England). The Visigoths helped the Romans defeat the Huns of ATTILA at Châ...
Goth
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Goth a member of a Germanic people that invaded the Roman Empire from the east between the 3rd and 5th centuries. The eastern division, the Ostrogoths, founded a kingdom in Italy, while the Visigoths went on to found one in Spain.
Alaric I
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Alaric I ( c. 370–410) King of the VISIGOTHS . He commanded THEODOSIUS' Gothic allies and helped put down the Western usurper emperor Eugenius. On Theodosius' death the...
Illyria
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...province of Illyricum , and later divided into the provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia. It was overrun by the Huns and the Visigoths between the 3rd and 5th centuries ad . The name was revived, as the Illyrian Provinces , in 1809 after Napoleon's defeat...
Theodosius I
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...95, known as Theodosius the Great . Proclaimed co-emperor by the Emperor Gratian in 379, he took control of the Eastern Empire and ended the war with the Visigoths. A pious Christian, in 391 he banned all forms of pagan worship.
Attila
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...inflicting great devastation on the eastern Roman Empire, before being defeated by the joint forces of the Roman army and the Visigoths at Châlons in 451. He was called the Scourge of God (translating Latin flagellum Dei ) by medieval chroniclers...

Thesaurus entries related to "Visigoth"

conquer
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus conquer • verb   1. the Franks conquered the Visigoths synonyms : defeat, beat, vanquish, trounce, triumph over, be victorious over, get the better of, worst; overcome, overwhelm...

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Carillon bells usher in RHS' Athenians and Visigoths
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 6/15/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...inspired democracy - and Visigoths, who she described as...and tradition. To be a Visigoth is to care little for any of this. Visigoths live in a self-centered...become Athenians and which Visigoths My hope is that for the...
How Moorish; London Escape: After the Romans, Visigoths, Moors and Christians, Cordoba's latest invader is Gavanndra Hodge, lured by the culture and the Cava-.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 10/27/2006; 700+ words ; ...philosopher Seneca, before being sacked by the Visigoths. It flowered again under the Moors...Mezquita. It was built on the ruined Visigoth basilica of San Vincente (itself occupying...plundered from Cordoba's Roman and Visigoth monuments, so that the column sizes...
Visigoth.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 9/22/2006; ; 630 words ; Visigoth by Gary Amdahl. Milkweed Editions, 212 pp., $15.95 (paper). Men Going Under...brittle, hyper-articulate, hyperstylized, by turns lyrical, grim, and hilarious, Visigoth rings brave, fresh, and wrenchingly real.
The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia; a supplemental bibliography, 1984-2003.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 502 words ; 9789004145948 The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia; a supplemental bibliography, 1984-2003...problem remains, he says: the wide dispersal of information about Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia throughout congresses, symposia, Festschriften...
The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (update); a supplemental bibliography, 2004-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 478 words ; 9789004169449 The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (update); a supplemental bibliography, 2004...invasions, patristics, archaeology, Toulouse, and other peoples besides Visigoths. ([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...exhaust his vast topic - a survey of relations between Jews and Visigoths in "first millennium" Spain and Jews and Muslims and Christians...and those of the later Catholic inhabitants of Spain. The Visigoths, because of their origins, had harsh Byzantine legislation...
Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict. By Norman...institutional codes. The book begins with an account of the Jews under the Visigoths, then under the Muslim Umayyad dynasty centered in Cordoba and the...
When in Rome, do as the Visigoths do
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/17/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Jerusalem Post 02-17-2005 Headline: When in Rome, do as the Visigoths do Byline: MARK STEYN Edition; Daily Section: Opinion Page...etc., he's more circumspect. When in Rome, do as the Visigoths do. The child sex racket is only the most extreme example...
Humble Clovis defies the education visigoths. (Clovis Unified School District)
Magazine article from: Policy Review; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...the King of the Franks led a band of warriors against the Visigoths, the marauding barbarians who had sacked Rome a century earlier. The king, named Clovis, defeated the Visigoths and broke their hold on Europe. Today, a modern namesake...
Visigoths and the City of God.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; When the Visigoths sacked Rome, the Eternal City, in 410 C.E., the attackers used the city's own mighty transportation system--the Appian...