Visigoths

Visigoths (West Goths), Germanic people. In the 3rd century A.D. they invaded Roman Dacia (Romania). Under Fritigern they defeated the Romans at Adrianople (378) and, led by Alaric I, they invaded Thrace and Italy, sacking Rome (410). They founded a kingdom in Gaul and Spain (419), but Alaric II lost the northern lands to Clovis, king of the Franks (507). Roderick, last Gothic king of Spain, lost his throne to the Moors (711).