Goth

Silver buckle with precious stones and the head of an eagle from the Tarnovka necropolis in Mangup, Crimea, 7th century AD. In the late 4th century AD, the Ostrogoths, who had developed an empire north of the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD, were defeated by the Huns, and most of them migrated eastwards to central Europe; however, a pocket of them remained behind in the Crimea and this branch of Ostrogoths preserved their identity into the Middle Ages.

East Germanic people who settled near the Black Sea around AD 2nd century. There are two branches, the eastern Ostrogoths and the western Visigoths. The Ostrogoths were conquered by the Huns in 372. They regained their independence in 454 and under Theodoric the Great conquered Italy 488-93; they disappeared as a nation after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I reconquered Italy 535-55.

The Visigoths migrated to Thrace. Under Alaric they raided Greece and Italy 395-410, sacked Rome, and established a kingdom in southern France. Expelled from there by the Franks, they established a Spanish kingdom which lasted until the Moorish conquest of 711.