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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2561774, member: 44210&quot;]I know this is something often repeated here but I&#039;m very glad I have a friendly and receptive place like CT to share my hobby and knowledge with. No one I know in real life that I can think of would be so willing to authentically share in my joy of obtaining coins and learning their history (that is, until I meet some of you all in person at FUN in January <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s some facts related to the Visigoths:</p><p><br /></p><p>The tribal Goths as a whole first come into contact with the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Goths&#039; ancestors came from Scandinavia.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Thervingi (who would become the Visigoths) and the Greuthungi (later the Ostrogoths) inflicted a massive defeat on the Roman Empire in 376 at Hadrianople, destroying most of the Roman army and killing Emperor Valens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Visigoths under King Alaric fought on behalf of the Romans against the usurper Eugenius, and later laid siege to Rome, sacking the city in 410 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Visigoths were granted territory in Aquitaine by Emperor Honorius, within the empire. This marked the start of the Visigothic Kingdom. Over the next decades they would expand into Roman Hispania.</p><p><br /></p><p>They allied with the Western Roman general Flavius Aetius when the Huns under Attila invaded Gaul in 451 AD. Roman-Germanic forces defeated the Huns at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.</p><p><br /></p><p>Western emperor Majorian carried out a military campaign in the late 450s in which several tribes, including the Visigoths, were reduced to being federates of the Romans. Most of Hispania thus returned to Roman hands. But this situation only lasted a few years after Majorian&#039;s death.</p><p><br /></p><p>Euric was the first Visigothic king to formally break from the dying Western Roman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were pushed out of most of their territory in Gaul by the Franks in the early 500s, only retaining Septimania.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Sueves, who established their own small kingdom in the northwest of Spain, were conquered by the Visigoths in the late 6th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 711 AD, Muslim forces from North Africa invaded the Visigothic Kingdom. King Roderic was killed in the fighting, and by 718, almost all of Hispania was under the rule of the vast Umayyad Caliphate, centered in Damascus. The remaining Visigothic nobles gathered in the far north and waged continued resistance against the Muslims. Their efforts lead to the establishment of the Kingdom of Asturias and the start of the Christian Reconquista.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Reconquista lasted almost 800 years, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Aragon and Castile defeated the last Muslim kingdom in Spain, the Emirate of Granada, in 1492.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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