After the Western Roman Empire diminished, two Gothic kingdoms rose: the short-lived Visigoths and the longer-lasting Ostrogoths. The earliest surviving written records mentioning the Goths date ...

The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write in the 510s that when “Odoacer, king of the Goths, took control of Rome” the “Western Empire of the Roman people … perished.” ...

In the late 4th and early 5th centuries, the Goths pressured by the Huns entered Roman territories, culminating in the ...

The use of "barbarian" soldiers is nothing new, but how do Game of Thrones' Wildlings differ from the Huns, Goths, and Vandals that swept into the later Roman empire? This season, HBO’s hit ...

The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar ... For centuries, Rome had been dealing with Germanic tribes, but ...

The Goths were a Germanic people who rose to prominence following the turn of the first millennium. They're perhaps most known for attacking the fading Roman Empire in the third century ...

The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C., when Octavian ... including invasions of Greece by the Goths. A series of epidemics, sometimes called the "Plague of Cyprian" (named after a bishop of Carthage ...

Zühmer But instead of the Roman Empire, there were smaller kingdoms, governed by Franks, Burgundians or Goths. The Roman Empire neither had an effective administration nor any maintenance ...