Visigoths

A Germanic people, forming one of the two great Gothic tribes, who fled from the Huns in 376 into the Roman Empire, and eventually founded the Visigothic kingdom, embracing at its height in the 7th-c Portugal, virtually all Spain, and part of S Gaul. It was extinguished by the Arab conquest of 711.

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See Also

Gaul, Goths, Huns


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