According to Jordanes ’ Getica, written in the mid-6th century, the earliest migrating Goths sailed from Scandza ( Scandinavia ) under King Berig in three ships and named the place at which they landed after themselves.

According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.

According to Jordanes, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed to settle on Roman soil as a state within a state.

According to Jordanes, the Alan king Sangiban, whose foederati realm included Aurelianum, had promised to open the city gates ; this siege is confirmed by the account of the Vita S. Anianus and in the later account of Gregory of Tours, although Sangiban's name does not appear in their accounts.

According to Jordanes, the Catalaunian plain rose on one side by a sharp slope to a ridge.

According to Jordanes, Aëtius feared that if the Huns were completely destroyed, the Visigoths would break off their allegiance to the Roman Empire and become an even graver threat.

According to Jordanes ( following Priscus ), sometime during the peace following the Huns ' withdrawal from Byzantium ( probably around 445 ), Bleda died ( killed by his brother, according to the classical sources ), and Attila took the throne for himself.

According to Jordanes and John Malalas, her husband was one of the Bessi, a tribe of Thracians.

According to the 6th century historian Jordanes:

According to the Gothic historian Jordanes, Alaric left Rome and headed south with his troops.

According to a tale related by Jordanes, Gothiscandza was the first settlement of the Goths after their migration from Scandinavia ( Scandza ) during the first half of the 1st century CE.

According to the Getica, he was the Gothic king who halted the advance of the Egyptian armies of the Egyptian king Sesostris ( whom Jordanes calls Vesosis ).

According to Herwig Wolfram, following Jordanes, the Ostrogoths had a huge kingdom north of the Black Sea in the 4th century, which the Huns overwhelmed in the time of the Gothic king Ermanaric ( or Hermanric ; i. e. " king of noblemen ") when the Huns migrated to the Russian steppe.

According to some historians, Jordanes ' account of the Goths ' history in Oium was constructed from his reading of earlier classical accounts and from oral tradition.

According to other historians, Jordanes ' narrative has little relation to Cassiodorus ,' no relation to oral traditions, and little relation to actual history.

According to Jordanes, the Goths claimed the land for themselves and defeated the previous inhabitants, the Spali.

According to Jordanes, their royal line had originated near the sea of Azov, then moved northward toward Scandzia where they established a separate priest-king line on the island of Gotland.

According to Jordanes, a king named Sitalces wanted revenge much later, and gathered 150 000 men to attack the Athenians.

According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza ( Scandinavia ) to Gothiscandza ( the Vistula Basin ).

According to Jordanes's Getica, the Goths entered Oium, part of Scythia, under their 5th king, Filimer, where they subdued the Spali ( Sarmatians ), conquered the Kingdom of the Bosporus and captured several cities on the Euxinean coast, including Olbia and Tyras.

According to the Getica, the chief god of the Goths was Mars, who they believed was born among them:

According to a statement in Jordanes's Getica, Germanus was a descendant of the noble Roman clan of the Anicii.

According to Ammianus, Ermanaric is " a most warlike king " who eventually commits suicide, facing the aggression of the Alani and of the Huns, who invaded his territories in the 370s.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah ( now called Yehud ) as a holy community ruled by priests.

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According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei ruled until his death in 571 and was buried in the Hinokuma no Sakai Burial Mound ( 桧隈坂合陵 ).

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According to different sources, 8, 000 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

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According to the Gopalavamsa chronicle, the Kiratas ruled for about 1225 years ( 800 BCE – 300 CE ), their reign had a total of 29 kings during that time.

According to the Bible, they ruled the five city-states ( the " Philistine Pentapolis ") of Gaza, Askelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from the Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with no fixed border to the east.

According to the Liberian Catalogue of popes, he ruled the Church during the reign of Hadrian " a consulatu Negro et Aproniani usque Vero III et Ambibulo ", that is, from 117 to 126.

According to Balakrishna the public sector companies in response to Sena's violent pressure, began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers, the company owners didn't object to the Sena entry in to trade unionism since " Thackeray ruled like a dictator, one phone call was enough to ensure peace on the shop floor.

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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle he " did nothing worthy of a king as long as he ruled.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Harold Harefoot ruled for four years and 16 weeks, by which calculation he would have begun ruling two weeks after the death of Cnut.

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