The clash took place in Orleans. The size of the forces of the contenders, the number of casualties recorded and how the battle unfolded are unknown. But the Visigoths were defeated and their chief, ...

The Visigoths came into contact with the Roman Empire and its language around the 4th century, possibly before their invasion in 376 and their victory at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The language ...

He says it was “a sign of triumph of Europe over Asia” and compares it to the epic battle of the Catalaunian Plains when in 451 the Romans and Visigoths defeated Atilla’s Huns. There is also ...

The text also tells of a battle between the Goths and Greeks that took place at the pass of Thermopylae. It's not clear when exactly the battle was fought but it was likely in the 250s or 260s.

The Visigoths were a Germanic tribe that in late antiquity harassed the Roman Empire to the point where Rome was sacked and its influence across Western Europe fatally eroded. The Goths' story is ...

The Visigoths (Western Goths) had fled the Huns' invasions of Eastern Europe in the fourth century. But in 378, after defeating a Roman army at the Battle of Adrianople (now Edirne, Turkey), the ...

ICE agents arrested a Honduran man at his church in Georgia. As Augustine chronicled after the sack of Rome, even the Visigoths never stooped to that. Rome was sacked in AD 410. It was the greates ...