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Ostrogoths

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(East Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of the Germans . According to their own unproven tradition, the ancestors of the Goths were the Gotar of S Sweden . By the 3d cent. A.D. , the Goths settled in the region N of the Black Sea. They split into two divisions, their names reflecting the areas in which they settled; the Ostrogoths settled in Ukraine , while the Visigoths , or West Goths, moved further west of them. By c.375 the Huns conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom ruled by Ermanaric , which extended from the Dniester River, north and east to the headwaters of the Volga River. 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…
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From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures Full text Article Europe
A Germanic people who emerged, along with the VISIGOTHS , from the break-up of the GOTHS in the late 3rd century AD . The Ostrogoths (‘East Goths’) settled on the River Dnieper and in the 4th century expanded east across the Ukraine as far as the Don. During this period, the Ostrogoths were…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(East Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of the Germans . According to their own unproven tradition, the ancestors of the Goths were the Gotar of S Sweden . By the 3d cent. A.D. , the Goths settled in the region N of the Black Sea. They split into two divisions, their…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Member of a division of the Goths (Ostrogoth means “Eastern Goth”) who built an empire north of the Black Sea in the 3rd century and established a kingdom in Italy in the late 5th century. At its zenith in the 4th century, the Ostrogoth empire stretched from the Don to the Dniester (in present-day…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome
The GOTHS who penetrated into the Roman Empire in the third century eventually split into two groups, the VISIGOTHS (the Western Goths) and the Ostrogoths (the Eastern Goths). Their destinies, though at times parallel, were from the fourth century quite distinct. The Ostrogoths faded from the Roman…
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The Goths were a Germanic tribe who possibly came from Sweden in the early centuries C.E. By the third century, they had come into contact with the Roman Empire and often clashed with Roman armies on the northern and northeastern frontiers. They arrived in the region of the lower Danube River, and…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Information on this population is closely linked to the events of the Gothic Germanic stock until ca. 376, the time at which, following the clash with the * Huns , the detachment (in fact already present) of the * Visigoths from the Ostrogoths became definitive. The former refused to submit to the…
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1st–10th century ce Byzantine Empire Europe Roman Empire The Ostrogoths were an important group during the Late Roman Empire. Their early elite emerged within the Hunnic Empire (c.400–455), and their most respected leader was King Theodoric the Great (r.490–526). He established an Ostrogothic…
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The Ostrogoths and Lombards were Germanic barbarians who successively became rulers of post-Roman Italy. The Ostrogoths were the eastern branch of the Gothic peoples, the western being the Visigoths. They first settled in the area of the Ukraine. An early Ostrogothic king, Ermanric, was defeated and…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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