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Visigoths

The name of the Western Goths who, confronted by the invasion of the Huns, took refuge in 376 in the Roman Empire. Under the leadership of their king, Alaric, they laid waste to Greece and Illyria, then Italy, where they seized Rome in 410. They then established themselves in South-East Gaul, with the agreement of the Roman authorities. Following his victory at Vouillé in 507, the Frankish king Clovis pushed them back beyond the Pyrenees. The Visigoth kingdom of Spain only disappeared after the Muslim conquest led by the Berber chief, Tarik, in 711.

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