. A group of Germanic peoples, composed primarily of Goths and known as the Visigoths (“Noble Goths”), entered Gaul after their sack of Rome in 410 and settled in Aquitaine. With the decline of the Roman Empire in the second half of the 5th...

The Visigoths (Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, or Wisi) were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe, the Ostrogoths being the other. Together these tribes were among the Germanic peoples who disturbed the late Roman...