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Key facts
- Reign
- 1 September 672 – 14 October 680
- Predecessor
- Recceswinth
- Successor
- Erwig
- Born
- c. 630, Visigothic Kingdom
- Died
- 687/688, Visigothic Kingdom
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Toledo
- Place of birth
- Penamacor
- Place of death
- Pampliega
- Father
- Tulga
- Position held
- king of Wisigoths
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Nicene Christianity
- Noble title
- king of Wisigoths
- Image
- 31-WAMBA.JPG
- Residence
- Toledo
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- Commons category
- Wamba
- date of birth
- 0633-00-00
- place of burial
- Toledo
- writing language
- Latin
- name in native language
- Wamba, Vamba
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- Wamba
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Wamba (Medieval Latin: VVamba, Vamba, Wamba; c. 630 – 687/688) was the king of the Visigoths from 672 to 680. During his reign, the Visigothic kingdom encompassed all of Hispania and part of southern Gaul known as Septimania.
According to Herwig Wolfram, Wamba means "big paunch" in Gothic (like German: "Wampe", cognate to English "womb") and may have been a nickname. Both Julian of Toledo in his Historia Wambae (History of Wamba) and the decisions of the eleventh Council of Toledo, held under Wamba's auspices, refer to the king only as Wamba.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wamba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.