Goths Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
East Germanic ethnolinguistic group
About Goths
The origin of the Goths is still unclear. Most believe that their homeland was in Southern Scandinavia, possibly the region ofGötaland, or the island ofGotland. The Germanic tribes had a continuious interchange across the Baltic Sea, but the hypothesis that a Gothic tribe migrated from Scandinavia to Central Europe has yet to find evidence; seeVikings and the Old Norsefor context. It seems that by the middle of the 2nd century, the Goths had settled near the Danube River and Black Sea in Central and South-eastern Europe. During the late 4th century, an onslaught by the Huns into their territory compelled the Goths to move west and invade the Roman Empire. At this point, the Goths were split into two major groups: theVisigoths(Goths of the west) and theOstrogoths(Goths of the east). There w
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