id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1858 Visigoths - Wikipedia .html text/html 9018 1152 74 The Visigoths (/ˈvɪzɪɡɒθs/; Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, or what is known as the Migration Period. Many recent scholars, such as Peter Heather, have concluded that Visigothic group identity emerged only within the Roman Empire.[18] Roger Collins also believes that the Visigothic identity emerged from the Gothic War of 376–382 when a collection of Tervingi, Greuthungi, and other "barbarian" contingents banded together in multiethnic foederati (Wolfram's "federate armies") under Alaric I in the eastern Balkans, since they had become a multi ethnic group and could no longer claim to be exclusively Tervingian.[19] During their long reign in Spain, the Visigoths were responsible for the only new cities founded in Western Europe between the 5th and 8th centuries. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1858.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1858.txt