Visigothic Kingdom
Kingdom of the Visigoths Regnum Gothorum | |||||||||||||
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| 418–c. 721 | |||||||||||||
 Greatest extent of the Visigothic Kingdom, c. 500 (Total extension shown in orange. Territory lost after Battle of Vouillé shown in light orange). | |||||||||||||
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
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• 415–418 | Wallia | ||||||||||||
• 418–451 | Theodoric I | ||||||||||||
• 466–484 | Euric | ||||||||||||
• 484–507 | Alaric II | ||||||||||||
• 511–526 | Theodoric the Great | ||||||||||||
• 568–586 | Liuvigild | ||||||||||||
• 586–601 | Reccared | ||||||||||||
• 612–621 | Sisebut | ||||||||||||
• 621–631 | Swintila | ||||||||||||
• 649–672 | Recceswinth | ||||||||||||
• 694–710 | Wittiza | ||||||||||||
• 710–711 | Roderic | ||||||||||||
• 714 – c. 721 | Ardo | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| 410 | |||||||||||||
• | 418 | ||||||||||||
| 451 | |||||||||||||
| 507 | |||||||||||||
• Annexation of the Suebic Kingdom | 585 | ||||||||||||
• Conquest of Byzantine Spania | 624 | ||||||||||||
• Battle of Guadalete and Umayyad conquest of Toledo | 711 | ||||||||||||
• | c. 721 | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| 484[3] | 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| 580[3] | 600,000 km2 (230,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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The Visigothic Kingdom was a kingdom in what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries.
It was created when Visigoths under King Wallia entered the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania. The kingdom was expanded when the Visigoths conquered Hispania.
Visigothic Kingdom Media
Península ibérica en el año 418, tras el reparto de Hispania por los invasores renanos (411) y el asentamiento visigodo en Aquitania II. * Iberian peninsula in year 418, after the Rhine invaders had divided Hispania (411) and the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitania II.
Theodoric I by Fabrizio Castello (1560–1617)
Map of Spain in the 470's, before the Fall of Rome, showing the campaigns of Theoderic II and the flee of the Vandals.
Clovis I fights the Visigoths
Visigothic - Pair of Eagle Fibula - Walters 54421, 54422 - Group
From the Códice Albedense.
Copy of a mural from Qusayr Amra, depicting king Roderic
References
- ↑ Following the death of Amalaric (531). See: S. J. B. Barnish, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, The Ostrogoths from the migration period to the sixth century: an ethnographic perspective (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2007), p. 369.
- ↑ Capital of the Visigothic kingdom by the end of the reign of Athanagild (died 567). See: Collins, Roger. Visigothic Spain, 409–711 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), p. 44.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Taagepera, Rein. Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.. Social Science History 3 (3/4) (1979). p. 126. doi:10.2307/1170959.