The Visigoths, or Western Goths, were an off-shoot group of the Goths, an ethnically diverse, migrant Germanic people. Though they left few records, those that exist document them as a mainly warrior people, their culture and geographic movements based upon their conquests. Their invasion of Rome in 410 C.E. would later lead to the end of the Empire, and their culture would eventually meld with that of the Spanish Moors, Franks and Romans, essentially ending the Visigothic Kingdom as it independently existed.
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Visigothic History- The Visigoths tauted an eventful history, from their origins as a Germanic tribe to the invasion of the Moors and subsequent end of the Visigothic Kingdom in 711 C.E.
Visigothic Culture- The military aspects of the pre-Roman culture, as well as their art, language and religion all contributed to the character of the Visigothic tribes and their affects on the cultures surrounding them.
Interactions with Classical Cultures- Mostly involved with the Roman Empire, the Visigoths maintained complex relationships with the classical civilization, both sheltered by it and at war with it at various times in their history.
References in Classical Literature- Because they left few records of their own existence, the VIsigoths are mostly documented by Roman historians and writers who covered various aspects of Visigothic conquests and culture.
Influence on Classical Cultures- Visigothic excursions led to the eventual downfall of the Roman Empire, a very negative effect of the small tribe's interaction with the major power.
Introduction to the Visigoths
