Visigothic Kingdom

Kingdom of the Visigoths
*Regnum Gothorum*
Kingdom of the Visigoths Regnum Gothorum
418–c. 721
	Tremissis depicting Liuvigild (568–586)
	Greatest extent of the Visigothic Kingdom, c. 500 (Total extension shown in orange. Territory lost after Battle of Vouillé shown in light orange).
Capital	Toulouse (418–507); Barcelona (507–542) (temporarily); Toledo (542–711);
Common languages	Gothic (spoken among elite); Vulgar Latin; Vasconic languages (spoken by several tribes throughout almost the entire Pyrenean and pre-Pyrenian region); Hebrew and Aramaic (spoken to a certain extent, during this period, among Jews);
Religion	Gothic paganism (initially); Chalcedonian Christianity; Arianism;
Government	Monarchy
King
• 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
• Sack of Rome	410
• Established	418
• Battle of the Catalaunian Plains	451
• Battle of Vouillé	507
• Annexation of the Suebic Kingdom	585
• Conquest of Byzantine Spania	624
• Battle of Guadalete and Umayyad conquest of Toledo	711
• Umayyad occupation of; Septimania	c. 721
Area
484	500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi)
580	600,000 km2 (230,000 sq mi)
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Western Roman Empire
	Kingdom of the Suebi
Umayyad Caliphate
Kingdom of Asturias

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.

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↑ 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 (1979). "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.". Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 126. doi:10.2307/1170959. JSTOR 1170959.

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[Taagepera126-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Taagepera, Rein (1979). "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.". Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 126. doi:10.2307/1170959. JSTOR 1170959.

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