Ostrogota
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Ostrogotha was a leader of the Goths in Ukraine, who invaded Roman Moesia during the Crisis of the Third Century. He was a contemporary of Cniva, who also led Gothic armies in the same period.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Pontic-Caspian steppe
- Place of death
- Pontic-Caspian steppe
- Occupation
- king
- Position held
- king
- Family
- Amali dynasty
- Noble title
- king
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- date of death
- 0290-00-00
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- date of birth
- 0200-00-00
- social classification
- nobility
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Jordanes
- Ancestry
- History
- Dexippus
- References
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Ostrogotha was a leader of the Goths in Ukraine, who invaded Roman Moesia during the Crisis of the Third Century. He was a contemporary of Cniva, who also led Gothic armies in the same period.
He was mentioned by the 6th-century historian Jordanes in his history of the Goths. Cassiodorus, who Jordanes reported to be the main source upon which he based his own work, also mentioned Ostrogotha as one of the ancestors of Amalasuintha and her father, Theoderic the Great.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostrogota” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.