Ostrogoths

Mosaic depicting the palace of Theodoric the Great in his palace chapel of San Apollinare Nuovo

The Ostrogoths were the eastern branch of the later Goths. The other major branch was the Visigoths.

The Ostrogoths started with the Greutungi, a branch of the Goths that moved southward from the Baltic Sea during the 3rd and the 4th centuries.

They built an empire that stretched from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and traded with the Roman Empire. Its peak was under King Ermanaric.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Ostrogoths built a new kingdom in northern Italy centred in Ravenna.

Ostrogoths Media

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       Traditional Götaland*     Island of Gotland*     Wielbark Culture, early 3rd century*     Chernyakhov culture, early 4th century*     Roman Empire

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  Ostrogothic bow-fibulae (c. 500) from Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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  Map of the Gothic migrations and kingdoms

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  Historical map of Europe in 230 CE.*<<< previous*next >>>

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  Gothic raids in the 3rd century

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  Historical map of Europe in 305 CE, with modern borders.*<<< previous*next >>>

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  Routes taken by Germanic invaders during the Migration Period

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  Barbarian kingdoms and tribes after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476

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  The Concesti helmet was found among the burial goods of a probable Ostrogothic Prince. Hermitage Museum.

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  Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy