id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4 Ostrogoths - Wikipedia .html text/html 9050 979 75 The Goths appear in Roman records starting in the third century, in the regions north of the Lower Danube and Black Sea.[1] They competed for influence and Roman subsidies with peoples who had lived longer in the area, such as the Carpi, and various Sarmatians, and they contributed men to the Roman military.[2] Based on their Germanic language and material culture it is believed that their Gothic culture derived from cultures originally from the direction of the Vistula river, in the north, and now in Poland.[3] By the third century, the Goths were already in sub-groups with their own names, because the Tervingi, who bordered on the Roman Empire and the Carpathian mountains, were mentioned separately on at least one occasion.[4] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4.txt