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Visigothic Kingdom
Origins
After sacking Rome in 410 under Alaric, the Visigoths moved into Gaul and Spain. In 418 Rome settled them as federates in Aquitaine, with Toulouse as their capital, under King Wallia. Theodoric I died fighting Attila on the Catalaunian Plains in 451, and Euric made the kingdom fully independent and expanded deep into Hispania.
Rule and society
Gothic warriors ruled a mostly Roman population, at first under separate laws. The kings were Arian until Reccared converted to Catholicism in 589, after which the Councils of Toledo became central to government. Leovigild conquered the Kingdom of the Suebi, and Recceswinth issued the Visigothic Code in 654.
Decline and legacy
Clovis defeated Alaric II at Vouillé in 507, and the centre of the kingdom shifted to Hispania, where Toledo became the capital by the 560s. In 711 Tariq ibn Ziyad defeated King Roderic, and the Umayyad Caliphate conquered Iberia; the last Visigothic outpost in Septimania fell around 720. The Christian kingdoms of the north claimed Visigothic descent.
Lineage
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- Visigothic Kingdom was a vassal of Roman Empire418 CE – 475 CE
- Carthaginiensis was conquered by Visigothic Kingdom460 CE – 476 CE
- Hispania Tarraconensis was conquered by Visigothic Kingdom472 CE
- Visigothic Kingdom was conquered by Kingdom of the Franks507 CE
- Ostrogothic Kingdom in personal union with Visigothic Kingdom511 CE – 526 CE
- Duchy of Cantabria was a vassal of Visigothic Kingdom574 CE – 711 CE
- Kingdom of the Suebi was conquered by Visigothic Kingdom585 CE
- Byzantine Spania was conquered by Visigothic Kingdom624 CE – 625 CE
- Visigothic Kingdom was conquered by Umayyad Caliphate711 CE – 721 CE
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