Two kingdoms: Visigoths and Ostrogoths Alaric died a few months after the sacking of Rome. During the fifth century A.D., as the Western Roman Empire faded, two Gothic kingdoms rose.

The history of Europe was forever changed during the Great Migration of Peoples,a turbulent yet transformative era from the ...

Hans-Ulrich Wiemer’s Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans helps us answer this question. To understand Theoderic, one must understand his people. After the dissolution of Atilla the Hun ...

RAVENNA, Oct. 16.--The very name of Ravenna sounds like the echo of far-away centuries of a mysterious new power in history that, like Jonah's gourd, grew up in a night, overshadowed even the vast ...

Le mot «ostrogoths» est sur toutes les lèvres depuis que Justin Trudeau l'a utilisé pour qualifier les fêtards du vol Montréal-Cancún.

Voyez-vous, les Ostrogoths font partie de ces peuples ayant littéralement participé à la chute de la civilisation romaine, à l’époque de l’empire. Le terme est donc éloquent.

En l'an 500, l'Europe est habitée par plusieurs peuples différents. Dans le Sud de la France, on retrouve les Wisigoths et, en Italie, leurs proches cousins les Ostrogoths. Dans le Nord de la ...