#LEADER: 

Alaric

#GREAT LEADERS (Calgacus):

Euric
Fritigern
Theodoric the Amal
Leovigild
Recared
Amalasuintha
Ricimer
Wittigis
Totila
Huneric
Valamir
Ataulf
Theodoric Strabo
Ermanaric
Roderic


#CITY LIST (Calgacus & Thamis):


Scandza
Gothiscandza
Gautigoth
Ostrogoth
Vestrogoth
Adogit
Skrerefenni
Suehans
Theusten
Wagoth
Toletum
Ravenna
Corduba
Tolosa
Bergio
Hallin
Liothida
Ahelmil
Finnaithen
Fervir
Euagi
Otingis
Raumariker
Ragnariker
Finn
Winowilotd
Suetiden
Heruler
Grannier
Augandzer
Eunixer
Taetel
Rugi
Arocher
Ranier
Gediden
Odyssitana
Anchiacos
Syrmis
Vindomia
Basiana
Naissus
Stobis
Eraklea
Larissa
Cerrus
Pellas
Mediana
Petina
Bereu
Sium
Sirmium
Ulmeruger
Wandalen
Spaler
Golthescytha
Thiuden
Inauxer
Wasinabronken
Merens
Mordens
Imniskaren
Rogas
Tadzans
Athaul
Navego
Bubegans
Koldas
Heruler
Aesten
Rosomonen
Hispalis
Verona
Mediolanum
Palencia
Pavia
Monza
Isonzo
Vindobona
Clavenna
Saragossa
Carcassone
Coimbra
Urgel
Spoleto
Ratisbon
Murcia
Sirmium
Noreia
Teurnia
Virunum
Narona
Scardona
Tarsatica
Tarraco
Cosenza
Naples
Ancona
Tridentum
Lauriacum
Octoduras
Arelate
Aginnum
Numancia
Castulo
Munda
Emerita
Scallobis
Bracara
Lucus


#CIVILOPEDIA ENTRY (Calgacus and Thamis):

RACE_Goths
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^    No-one knows the exact origin of the Goths. According to late tradition, the emigrated from Scandza to Gothiscandza, and 
Scandza has been identified with Scandinavia and Gothiscandza with the Vistula basin. For a long time the Gutones remained under
the rule of the Vandals and other Germanic tribes, but the Goths, with their more sophisticated style of kingship, were able to 
break off. From the Vistula valley, the Goths as defined by the genealogy of the Amali clan, migrated to the Black Sea and 
established a large confederation. With the arrival of the Huns on their eastern borders, they got up and entered (with Roman 
permission)the eatern Roman Empire, to gain land and provisions in exchange for military service. Relations broke down, and the 
Goths rebelled under Fritigern, crushing Rome's legions at Adrianople on 9th August 378.   
^  The Goths were subsequently settled in Illyria, but were forced to rebel once again, and their leader Alaric sacked Rome
in 410. Under Ataulf the Visigoths left (412) Italy
and went into S Gaul and N Spain. They increased their territories in Spain (which was evacuated by the Vandals ), acquired Aquitaine
 , and extended their influence to the Loire valley, making Tolosa (Toulouse) their capital. The height of Visigothic power was reached under 
Euric (466-84), who completed the conquest of Spain. In 507, Alaric II was defeated at Vouill by the Franks under Chlodovech (Clovis), to whom he
 lost nearly all his possessions N of the Pyrenees. Toledo became the new Visigothic capital, and the history of the Visigoths became 
essentially that of Spain . Weakened by warfare with the Franks and the Basques and by Byzantine penetration in S Spain, the kingdom 
recovered its vigor in the late 6th cent. under Leovigild and under Recared , whose conversion to Catholicism facilitated the fusion
of the Visigothic and the Hispano-Roman populations of Spain. King Recceswinth imposed (c.654) a Visigothic common law on both his Gothic
and his Roman subjects, who previously had lived under different codes (see Germanic laws ). The church councils of Toledo became the main 
force in the government, and the royal power was weakened accordingly. King Wamba, who succeeded Recceswinth, was deposed after a civil war, 
and thereafter the kingdom was torn by civil strife. When the last king, Roderick , seized the throne, his rivals appealed to the 

#DESC_RACE_Goths
^
^Muslim leader Tarik ibn Ziyad , whose victory (711) in a battle near Medina Sidonia ended the Visigothic kingdom and inaugurated the Moorish 
period in the history of Spain. The Visigothic kingdom survived in what would be the kingdom of the Asturias. 
^  The Ostrogoths were subject to the Huns until the death (453) of Attila , when they settled in Pannonia (roughly modern Hungary) as 
allies of the Byzantine (East Roman) empire. The Ostrogoths, who had long elected their rulers, chose (471) Theodoric the Great as king. A turbulent 
ally, the Byzantine emperor, Zeno , commissioned Theodoric to reconquer Italy from Odoacer . The Ostrogoths entered Italy in 488, defeated and slew
(493) Odoacer, and set up the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy , with Ravenna as their capital. After Theodoric's death (526) his daughter Amalasuntha 
^was regent for her son Athalric. She placed herself under the protection of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I . Her murder (535) served as pretext
for Justinian to send Belisarius to reconquer Italy. He crushed the Ostrogothic kingdom, but on his recall (541) the Ostrogoths rebelled under the 
leadership of Totila . In 552 the Byzantine general Narses defeated Totila, who fell in battle. As a result, the Ostrogoths lost their national 
identity, and the hegemony over Italy passed to Byzantium and shortly afterward to the Lombards. Under the Ostrogothic kings, the culture of late 
antiquity was revived by Boethius and Cassiodorus; Dionysius Exiguus compiled church law; and Saint Benedict laid the basis of Western monasticism. 
Roman law and institutions were for the most part maintained; however, the Ostrogoths were resented as aliens by the Italians, from whom they differed 
not only in culture but also in religion, since they were Arians.
^  Although Gothic culture disappeared or was transformed over most of the area originally conquered
by the Goths, Gothic tradions survive in western Europe, like the noble horseman who became the later "knight". Goths survived in the Crimea until
relatively recetnnly. Gothic culture was also quite productive, especially in Spain, were Hispano-Goths like Isidore of Seville laid the basis 
for the more famous (but no better) creativity of Arab Spain. 

#EOF
