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To: TigerPaw who wrote (60415)	10/16/2014 4:31:50 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

A very good article.....Theodoric, son of King Thiudimir of the Ostrogoths, deposed Odoacer and ruled over Rome and the Goths for over thirty years. He was baptized as Dietrich but, at the age of eight, was sent to Constantinople as a hostage, and his name was romanized to "Theodoric". He may be the hero of Middle High German literature known as Dietrich von Bern, although that is controversial. http://ow.ly/CzNHf Theodoric the Great www.ancient.eu Theodoric (known as Theodoric the Great and Flavius Theodoricus, 451 or 454 - 526 CE) was the king of the Ostrogoths who, at the encouragement and...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (60415)	10/16/2014 6:27:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

An important source of knowledge of the Goths is Getica, a semi-fictional account, written in the 6th century by the Roman historian Jordanes, of their migration from southern Scandza ( Scandinavia), into Gothiscandza—believed to be the lower Vistula region in modern Pomerania—and from there to the coast of the Black Sea. Archaeological evidence from the Pomeranian Wielbark culture and the Chernyakhov culture, northeast of the lower Danube, confirms that some such migration did in fact take place. In the 3rd century, the Goths crossed either the lower Danube or the Black Sea, ravaged the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia as far as Cyprus, and sacked Athens, Byzantium, and Sparta. [3] By the 4th century, the Goths had conquered Dacia, and were divided into at least two distinct groups separated by the Dniester River, the Thervingi (led by the Balti dynasty) and the Greuthungi (led by the Amali dynasty). The Goths dominated a vast area, which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric extended all the way from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea. [4] [5][ dubious – discuss] In the late 4th century, the Huns came from the east and invaded the region controlled by the Goths. Although the Huns successfully subdued many of the Goths, who joined their ranks, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube. They then revolted against the Roman Empire, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Adrianople. By this time the Gothic missionary Wulfila, who devised the Gothic alphabet to translate the Bible, had converted many of the Goths from paganism to Arian Christianity. In the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries the Goths separated into two main branches, the Visigoths, who became federates wikipedia