In the early summer of 268, the Emperor Gallienus halted their advance into Italy, but then had to deal with the Goths.

After their setbacks against the Huns, Alaric was probably a child during the Goths ' mass migration across the Danube and their subsequent war with Rome.

Instead, Rufinus attempted to negotiate with Alaric in person, which only aroused suspicions in Constantinople that Rufinius was in league with the Goths.

The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.

Gallus, who became emperor upon Decius ' death, negotiated a treaty with the Goths under duress, which allowed them to keep their booty and return to their homes on the other side of the Danube.

Jovinus tried to negotiate with the invading Goths of Ataulf ( 412 ), but his proclamation of his brother Sebastianus as Augustus made Ataulf seek alliance with Honorius.

Götaland, south Sweden, with the island of Gotland in the east, a possible colony of the Goths.

The earliest material culture associated with the Goths on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea is the Wielbark Culture, centered around the modern region of Pomerania in northern Poland.

One theory claims that the Goths maintained contact with southern Sweden during their migration.

After a 10 year gap, the Goths, along with the Heruli, another Germanic tribe from Scandinavia, raiding on 500 ships, sacked Heraclea Pontica, Cyzicus and Byzantium.

In Spain, a man acting with arrogance would be said to be " haciéndose los godos " (" making himself to act like the Goths ").

Goths, like any other alternative sub-culture sometimes suffer intimidation, humiliation, and, in many cases, physical violence for their involvement with the subculture.

In 451, Attila's forces entered Gaul, with his army recruiting from the Franks, Goths and Burgundian tribes en route.

In the Hervarar saga, the Goths make first contact with the bow-wielding Huns and meet them in an epic battle on the plains of the Danube.

Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.

The dragging war with the Goths was a disaster for Italy, even though its long-lasting effects may have been less severe than is sometimes thought.

It is the only extant classical work dealing with the early history of the Goths.

The Goths had been converted with the assistance of Ulfilas ( a Goth ), made bishop on that account.

He lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza ( 25, 94 ), in a distant past.

Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked " Troy and Ilium " just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon ( 108 ).

Etymologically, the ethnonym of the Goths derives from the stem Guton -", which gave Proto-Germanic * Gutaniz ( also surviving in Gutes ( Swedish Gutar ), the self-designation of the inhabitans of Gotland in Sweden ).

Parallel occurrences indicate that it may mean " country of the Goths ": Old Icelandic Sui-þjòd, " Sweden "; Old English Angel-þēod, " Anglia "; Old Irish Cruithen-tuath, “ country of the Picts ”.

The Spanish delegation retorted that it was only the lazy and unenterprising Goths who had remained in Sweden, whereas the heroic Goths had left Sweden, invaded the Roman empire and settled in Spain.

It may mean " rock people ", ( from the Old Norse grjut huningi ) to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the Geats ( referred as Goths in Scandinavia ) from Götaland ( Gothland ) in southern Sweden.

Between 1540 and 1973, the kings of Sweden were officially called king of the Swedes, the Geats and the Wends ( in Latin translation king of Suiones, Goths and Vandals ) ( Sw. Svears, Götes och Wendes Konung ).

* Charles XII, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends ;

* Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends

* Gustav III, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends

Nicolás Palacios traces the origins of the Spanish component of the " Chilean race " to the coast of the Baltic Sea, specifically to Götaland in Sweden, one of the supposed homelands of the Goths.

We Charles, by the Grace of God King of Sweden, the Goths and the Vends, Grand Prince of Finland, Duke of Estonia and Karelia, Lord of Ingria, Duke of Bremen, Verden and Pomerania, Prince of Rügen and Lord of Wismar, and also Count Palatine by the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Zweibrücken – Kleeburg, as well as Duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, Count of Veldenz, Spanheim and Ravensberg and Lord of Ravenstein.

Eric's full title was: King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Duke of Pomerania

: (" By the Grace of God, King of Sweden, the Goths / Geats and the Wends ")

King of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst

By the Grace of God, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria.

The idea that Gog and Magog were connected with the Goths was longstanding ; in the mid-16th century, Archbishop of Uppsala Johannes Magnus traced the royal family of Sweden back to Magog son of Japheth, ( Magnus identified two of Magog's sons as Suenno, progenitor of the Swedes, and Gethar ( also known as Gog or Gogus ), ancestor of the Goths ).

However, findings are also made down to Scania, Sweden where an earlier interpretation, in 1589, was a rendezvous point of Huns and Goths.

From the Middle Ages until 1974, the king of Sweden, claimed the title king of the Geats as " king of Sweden and Geats / Goths " or " Rex Sweorum et Gothorum ".

In the fifth and sixth centuries, the Goths separated into two tribes, the Visigoths, who became federates of the Romans, and the Ostrogoths, who joined the Huns.

The Goths were briefly reunited under one crown in the early sixth century under Theodoric the Great, who became regent of the Visigothic kingdom following the death of Alaric II at the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

However, many Goths would serve in Roman legions and others, as foederati, for a single campaign, while bands of Goths switching loyalties became a destabilizing factor in the internal struggles for control of the Empire.

After the invasions by the Vandals, the Longobards and the Goths in the 5th-6th centuries AD, Reggio became the capital of the " metropolis of the Byzantine possessions in southern Italy " and several times between 536 and 1060 AD it was also the capital of the Duchy of Calabria and linchpin of the Greek church in Italy.

The psychological impact of this victory was so strong that Claudius became known to posterity as Claudius II Gothicus (" conqueror of the Goths ").

Provincials became victims of frequent raids by foreign tribes, such as the Carpians, Goths, Vandals, and Alamanni, along the Rhine and Danube Rivers in the western part of the Empire, as well as attacks from Sassanids in the eastern part of the Empire.

In June 251, Decius was killed in battle with the Goths ; immediately following this Trebonianus Gallus became Emperor.

Heidrek became king of the Goths.

After the conquest of Italy by the Goths, Tyrol became part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom from the 5th to the 6th century.

Following the Sack of Rome by invading European Goths, Rome became increasingly isolated from the churches in the eastern and southern Mediterranean.

In 337 or 341, Wulfila became the first bishop of the ( Christian ) Goths.

It was inhabited and governed primarily by Crimean Goths, and became the center of their autonomous principality.

After the Hunnic empire disintegrated, part of the Scirii joined with the Western Goths and the Eastern Goths, while others became foederati in the Roman empire.

Himarë and the rest of the southern Balkans passed into the hands of the Byzantine Empire following the fall of Rome, but like the rest of the region it became the frequent target of various attackers including the Goths, Avars, Slavs, Bulgars, Saracens and Normans.

Bacurius was a tribunus sagittariorum at the Battle of Adrianople with the Goths in 378 and then served as dux Palaestinae and comes domesticorum until 394, when he became magister militum and commanded a " barbarian " contingent in Emperor Theodosius I ’ s ( r. 379 – 395 ) campaign against the Roman usurper Eugenius and met his death, according to Zosimus, at the Battle of the Frigidus.

Valens became the third Emperor ( after Decius and Julian ) to be killed in battle with a foreign enemy ( the Goths ); only two more Emperors were ever killed in battle by foreign enemies: Nikephoros I by the Bulgars in 811 and Konstantinos XI Palaeologos by the Turks in 1453.

The modern day ruins of Mangup ( Doros ): Capital of the Crimean Goths. The Ostrogoths became vassals of the Huns until the death of Attila, when they revolted and regained independence.

It was inhabited and governed primarily by Crimean Goths, and became the center of their autonomous principality.

The Swede Johannes Magnus around the same time as Aventinus, wrote that Gothus or Gethar, also known as Gogus or Gog, was one of Magog's sons, who became first king of the Goths ( Geats ) in Gothaland.

From the 3rd century and onwards, the culture was overrun by the Goths and became part of the Chernyakhov culture.