The swift conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate, taking advantage of the Visigothic kingdom’s succession civil war, cannot be explained so much by the strength of those troops, which were few in number, but by the implementation of a strategy of pacts that followed the initial resistance—especially in the south—after the Battle […]
Visigoths
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The cities founded by the Visigoths on the Iberian Peninsula, the only newly built cities in Western Europe between the 5th and 8th centuries
In the year 507, the pressure from the Franks led the Visigoths, who had until then occupied and controlled the southern Gaul and much of the northern Iberian Peninsula, to mass migrate to Hispania. That year is considered the founding year of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo, which would not be consolidated until the reign […]
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Anicia Faltonia Proba, the woman who opened the doors of Rome to the Visigoths in the year 410
During the Dominate era, in the Late Roman Empire, there lived a woman who has gone down in history for having been the one to open the doors of Rome to Alaric’s Visigoths in the year 410 AD. We are referring to Anicia Faltonia Proba, famous not only for her great culture but also for […]
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Gutisko Razda, the language spoken by the Visigoths
Visigoths were a branch of the Goths, who in turn belonged to the East Germanic tribes that between 600 and 300 BC migrated from Scandinavia to the region between the Oder and Vistula rivers. Some researchers believe that the Visigoths are the same people as the Thervingi, as the sixth century AD historian Jordanes says […]
