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The Visigoths kingdom

Visigoths defeated Valente, the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire at Adrianopolis ( 378) and move around the Eastern Europe. The escaped from the Huns ( asiatic steppes people ) . They reached Italy and plundered Rome. At last they settled in Spain .
The Visigothic kingdom extended  over the former Roman province of Spain and Gaul until the beginning of the 6th century when the Franks defeated them and were expelled from the Gaul.

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Then the Visigoths made of the Iberian peninsula their main territory and defeated other Germanic peoples like the Suevi, the Vandals and the Alans from de Iberian peninsula .
Toledo was their capital and during the 6th and the 7th century the Visigothic kingdom grew up and became a powerful kingdom . Its kings adopted the christianity as oficial religion ( first arianism and afterwards when Recaredo was the king catholicism became the official religion).
At the beginning of the 8th century  the kingdom disappeared with the Muslim invasion (711) afterwards a lot of fightings among noblemen .


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Theodosius was defeated by Visigoths in Adrianopolis battle


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At the beginning , Visigoths were arians.

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The Visigoths kingdom disappeared because of Franks.

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Visigoths plundered Rome in 415 AD

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Visigoths escaped from the ( asiatic steppes people ) . They reached Italy and plundered . At last they settled in .
The Visigothic kingdom extended  over the former Roman province of and until the beginning of the 6th century when the defeated them and were expelled from the .
Then the Visigoths made of the Iberian peninsula their main territory and defeated other Germanic peoples like the Suevi, the and the Alans from de Iberian peninsula .
was their capital and during the 6th and the 7th century the Visigothic kingdom grew up and became a powerful kingdom . Its kings adopted the as official religion ( first and afterwards when Recaredo was the king catholicism became the official religion).
At the beginning of the 8th century  the kingdom disappeared with the invasion (711) afterwards a lot of fightings among noblemen .

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was a Christian proposed in the 4th century by , Alexandrian presbyter. It affirmed that Christ is not truly but a created being. In Arius opinion only God is alone self-existent and so the Son can not be God. At the beginning , Visigoths adopted the Arianism heresy but the king adopted the as officlal religion of the kingdom.

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