Goths

The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first mentioned by Greco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is now Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania. From here they conducted raids into Roman territory, and large numbers of them joined the Roman military. These early Goths lived in the regions where archaeologists find the Chernyakhov culture, which flourished throughout this region during the 3rd and 4th centuries.

The Alans () were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today the North Caucasus; some continued on to Europe and later North Africa. They are generally regarded as part of the Sarmatians, and possibly related to the Massagetae. Modern historians have connected the Alans with the Central Asian Yancai of Chinese sources and with the Aorsi of Roman sources. Having migrated westwards and becoming dominant among the Sarmatians on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the Alans are mentioned by Roman sources in the . At that time they had settled in the region north of

right|thumb|220px|Geatish settlements during the 6th century, within the red lines. The green areas show the main areas of North Germanic settlement in Scandinavia. The Geats ( ), sometimes called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with the tribes of Swedes and Gutes. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces of and , the western and eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms.

former ethnic group which inhabited the Crimean peninsula

archaeological culture 100-500CE in modern Ukraine, Romania, Moldova Belarus

thumb|upright=2|The title of the Getica as it appears in a 9th-century manuscript of Lorsch Abbey now in the [[Vatican Library]] De origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae), commonly abbreviated Getica (), written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which is now lost. However, the extent to which Jordanes actually used the work of Cassiodorus is unknown. It is significant as the only remaining contemporaneous resource that gives an extended accou

The Thervingi, Tervingi, or Teruingi (sometimes pluralised Tervings or Thervings) were a Gothic people of the plains north of the Lower Danube and west of the Dniester River in the 3rd and the 4th centuries.

comic book album

archaeological culture 0-500CE in present-day Poland

Pietroasele is a commune in Buzău County, Muntenia, Romania, known for its vineyards. The name means "the rockies". The commune is composed of six villages: Câlțești, Clondiru de Sus, Dara, Pietroasa Mică, Pietroasele and Șarânga. It became famous with the discovery in 1837 of the Pietroasa Treasure composed of several pieces of gold and precious stones. The Romanian historian Alexandru Odobescu wrote a book on the archaeological discovery.

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200 BCE - 100 CE around the lower Vistula river

archaeological culture

Gaut (, from a Proto-Germanic *Gautaz) is an early Germanic name which represents a mythical ancestor or national god in the origin myth of the Geats.

Gothic treasure

right|250px|thumb|The oldest regions labelled Reidgotaland (in red and orange). The purple area is the Roman Empire and the pink area is [[Gotland]] Reidgotaland, Reidgothland, Reidgotland, Hreidgotaland or Hreiðgotaland was a land mentioned in Germanic heroic legend (mentioned in the Scandinavian sagas as well as the Anglo-Saxon Widsith) usually interpreted as the land of the Goths.

gold torc-like necklace

war (248–253)

right|thumb|250px|Sweden in the 12th century before the incorporation of [[Finland during the 13th century.

statute

According to a tale related by Jordanes in his Getica, Gothiscandza was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during the first half of the 1st century CE. He claimed that the name was still in use in his own day (c. 551).

heritage site in Galați County, Romania

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Christianity as practiced by the ancient Goths

3rd century people in the northern Sea of ​​Azov and Black Sea area

archeological site in Bulgaria

Medieval title used by monarchs

Iron Age burial site in Scandinavia

Gothic persecution of Christians in the third century

branch of Gothic people who settled in Thrace and Moesia

original religion of the Goths