Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths.

Ostrogothic rule ended when Italy was reconquered by the Byzantine Empire in 552.

In 418 the Aquitanian province was given to the Goths in exchange for their support against the Vandals.

By 508, the Visigoths had lost most of their Gallic holdings save Septimania in the south.

The historical core of the story is likely a conflict between the Eastern Geats (the wolf clan) and the Lombards (the hound clan).

Later in the 4th century, a group of Goths arrived in northern Bulgaria and settled in and around Nicopolis ad Istrum.

However, a new Ostrogoth king, Totila, drove down the Italian peninsula, plundering and conquering Sicily in 550.

Narses (478 573) general of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, responsible for destroying the Ostrogoths in 552 at the Battle of Taginae in Italy and saving Rome for the empire.

In addition to his reconquest of Carthage, noted above, Belisarius also recaptured Sicily, Naples, Rome and the rest of Italy from the Goths in a war lasting from 536 to 540.

The Gothic War between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy was fought from 535 until 554 in Italy, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica.

As king, Theodoric completed the settlements of the Visigoths in Gallia Aquitania II, Novempopulana and Gallia Narbonensis, and then used the declining power of the Roman Empire to extend his territory to the south.

At the Battle of Taginae (also known as the Battle of Busta Gallorum) in June July 552, the forces of the Byzantine Empire under Narses broke the power of the Ostrogoths in Italy, and paved the way for the temporary Byzantine reconquest of the Italian Peninsula.

It seems likely that at first the Visigoths were not given a large amount of land estates in the region (as previously believed), but that they acquired the taxes of the region, with the local Gallic aristocrats now paying their taxes to the Visigoths instead of to the Roman government.

The history of Moorish Gibraltar began with the landing of the Muslims in Hispania and the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in 711 and ended with the fall of Gibraltar to Christian hands 751 years later, in 1462, with an interregnum during the early 14th century.