However, he could not recover the territory of the Aude, which remained in the hands of the Visigoths, thanks to the help of the King of the Ostrogoths whose troops defeated Clovis's son in 508.

Pope Vigilius was also invited ; but even though he was at this period resident in Constantinople ( to avoid the perils of life in Italy, convulsed by the war against the Ostrogoths ), he declined to attend, and even issued a document forbidding the council from preceding without him ( his ' First Constitutum ').

His father was killed in battle against the Ostrogoths of Theoderic in 488, after which Mundus accepted the latter's invitation to join him.

Concerned with the success and popularity of Odoacer, Zeno started a campaign against him, at first with words, then by inciting the Ostrogoths to take back Italy from him.

Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, and the Lombards after him, attempted to introduce Arianism in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Herwig Wolfram believes one factor that led to his selection was support of fellow Ostrogoths who had gone west with him.

During the reign of Wacho, they were Roman Catholics allied with the Byzantine Empire, but Alboin converted to Arianism as an ally of the Ostrogoths and invaded Italy.

Valens, attempting to put down the disorder, was killed in battle with the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August 378.

The Ostrogoths were probably literate in the 3rd century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed.

Settling his people in lower Moesia, Theodoric came in conflict with Thracian Ostrogoths led by Theodoric Strabo, whom he eventually supplanted, uniting the peoples in 484.

The son of the King Theodemir and Ereleuva, Theodoric went to Constantinople as a young boy, as a hostage to secure the Ostrogoths ' compliance with a treaty Theodemir had concluded with the Byzantine Emperor Leo ( ruled 457 – 474 ).

The Ostrogoths needed a place to live, and Zeno was having serious problems with Odoacer, the King of Italy who had come to power in 476.

* Stilicho crushes a coalition of Asding Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Quadi with an army raised from forces of the Rhine frontier, leaving this sector dangerously weakened.

* Emperor Leo I signs a peace treaty with the Ostrogoths.

His mother, Amalasuntha, proposes to her cousin Theodahad, the kingdom's largest landowner and her father's last male heir, that he share the throne with her but that he will be king of the Ostrogoths in name only.

Clovis then secured an alliance with the Ostrogoths through the marriage of his sister Audofleda to their king, Theodoric the Great.

Traditionally he is credited with the construction of the Santi Apostoli, Rome, built to celebrate the complete victory of Narses over the Ostrogoths.

In Italy, they formed their own client division and disappeared with the Ostrogoths.

The arrival of the Huns in Europe resulted in Hun conquest of large parts of Eastern Europe, the Huns initially were allies of the Roman Empire who fought against Germanic tribes, but later the Huns cooperated with the Germanic tribe of the Ostrogoths, and large numbers of Germans lived within the lands of the Hunnic Empire of Attila.

Ildibad ( Sometimes rendered Hildebad or Heldebadus ) ( died 541 ) was a king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, being chosen to replace Witiges, who had been engaged in various intregues with Belisarius, and had left Ravenna.

From as early as 549 the Emperor Justinian I had planned to dispatch a major army to Italy to conclude the protracted war with the Ostrogoths initiated in 535.

The term rex Italiae ( king of Italy ) came into use with the Ostrogoths.

Theodoric continued to rule Italy with an army of Ostrogoths and a government that was mostly Italian.

The Germanic tribe of the Ostrogoths conquered Italy and presented themselves as upholders of Latin culture, mixing Roman culture together with Gothic culture, in order to legitimize their rule amongst Roman subjects who had a long-held belief in the superiority of Roman culture over foreign " barbarian " Germanic culture.

Radegund was then forced to marry King Clotaire, while Hermanfrid's wife Amalaberga fled to the Ostrogoths with her children Amalafrid and Rodelinda.

Historians suggest that the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Crimea lying to the central and southern parts ( the Tats ), and those of the Southern coast of Crimea ( the Yalıboyu ) were the direct descendants of the Pontic Greeks, Armenians, Scythians, Ostrogoths ( Crimean Goths ) and Kipchaks along with the Cumans while the latest inhabitants of the northern steppe represent the descendants of the Nogai Horde of the Black Sea nominally subjects of the Crimean Khan.

The Visigoths were highly romanized in the eastern Empire and already Christians, so their integration within the late Iberian-Roman culture was full ; they accepted the laws and structures of the late Roman World with little change, more than any other successor barbarian state in the West after the Ostrogoths, and all the more so after converting away from Arianism.

Thus Zeno achieved two goals with one action, he removed the Ostrogoths from his border, and extinguished the ruled of the troublesome Italian Foederati.

In 454, the Ostrogoths and other Germanic tribes revolted and the sons of Attila, who had quarreled among themselves, could not deal with the crisis.

In 551, King Totila of the Ostrogoths, in response to reports of an east Roman military build-up in the eastern side of the Adriatic, sent a 300-strong fleet to Kerkyra.

A description of them is given in a letter of Theodoric, the king of the Ostrogoths.

King Chlothar I ( 558 – 561 ) ruled the greater part of what is now Germany and made expeditions into Saxony, while the Southeast of modern Germany was still under influence of the Ostrogoths.

After their subjugation by the Huns, little is heard of the Ostrogoths for about 80 years, after which they reappear in Pannonia on the middle Danube River as federates of the Romans.

* Belisarius is sent back to Italy to once more fight the Ostrogoths.

Chapter II begins " that long succession of Waves of which History is chiefly composed ", the first of which, here, is composed of Ostrogoths, Visigoths, mere Goths, Vandals and Huns.

The notability of the name is due to Theodoric the Great, son of Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths ( 454 – 526 ), who became a legendary figure of the Germanic Heroic Age as Dietrich von Bern.

The Middle High German legend of Dietrich von Bern is based on the historical Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths.

The earliest case of such an bindrune of reasonable certain reading is the inscription ( perhaps referring to the " Mærings " or Ostrogoths ) on the silver buckle of Szabadbattyán, dated to the first half 5th century and conserved at the Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum in Budapest.

Because the original work of Cassiodorus has not survived, the work of Jordanes is one of the most important sources for the period of the migration of the European tribes, and the Ostrogoths and Visigoths in particular, from the 3rd century CE.

The total number of the population of Ostrogoths who settled in Italy was small, estimated at 40, 000 people, while the total population of both the Ostrogoths and their allies who occupied Italy is estimated at 100, 000 people.

Some, ( the Ostrogoths ), went west and their dogs became the German poodle, called in German the poodle-hund or puddle-dog, that is, water-dog.

In Hervarar saga, the name Hreiðgotaland is applied to the territories of the Ostrogoths in south-eastern Europe.

Of King Sivald Saxo tells nothing save that Sivald was son of Broder, son of King Jarmerik ( who is actually Ermanaric King of the Ostrogoths changed by Saxo one of his sources into a king of Denmark ).

A classic use of both is that represented in the Mosaics of Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo of the Royal Palace to which it was Chapel. Ravenna's Ostrogoths VI century Royal Palace.

The period Padway arrives in is a rather obscure one: Italy was ruled by the Ostrogoths, who had recently overthrown the Western Roman Empire, but were ( in de Camp's opinion anyway ) ruling relatively benevolently, e. g. allowing freedom of religion, and maintaining the urban Roman society which they conquered essentially unchanged.

In 537, when Wittigis is killed and Thiudahad reduced to madness, Padway has a protégé of his married to Mathaswentha and then created king of the Ostrogoths.

This state is modeled on the Ostrogoths of Belisarius's time.

The last, the fourth period that begins roughly after the invasion by the Ostrogoths from AD 472 or 489 is represented by remains of an early Christian basilica and a townhouse with apse.

* Sack of Rome ( 546 ) – Rome is sacked and depopulated by Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, during the war between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines

In Western tradition Gomer lineage is associated with Caledonians, Picts, Milesians, Umbrians, Helvetians, Celts, Galatians, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Goths, Vandals, Scandinavians, Jutes, Teutons, Franks, Burgundians, Alemanni, Armenians, Germans, Belgians, Dutch, Luxembourgers, Liechtensteiners, Austrians, Swiss, Angles, Saxons, Britons, English, Cornish, Turks, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and other related groups );