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  2. Revenge of the Barbarians - Wikipedia

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    Revenge of the Barbarians (Italian: La vendetta dei barbari) is a 1960 film about the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Visigoths. This film was written by Gastone Ramazzotti and directed by Giuseppe Vari .

  3. Sack of Rome (410) - Wikipedia

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    The Visigoths ravaged Campania, Lucania, and Calabria. Nola and perhaps Capua were sacked, and the Visigoths threatened to invade Sicily and Africa. [104] However, they were unable to cross the Strait of Messina as the ships they had gathered were wrecked by a storm. [85] [105] Alaric died of illness at Consentia in late 410, mere months after ...

  4. Visigoths - Wikipedia

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    The Visigoths were never called Visigoths, only Goths, until Cassiodorus used the term, when referring to their loss against Clovis I in 507. Cassiodorus apparently invented the term based on the model of the "Ostrogoths", but using the older name of the Vesi, one of the tribal names which the fifth-century poet Sidonius Apollinaris, had already used when referring to the Visigoths.

  5. List of films set in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Revenge of the Barbarians: 1960 about the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 AD (dir. by Giuseppe Vari) Revenge of The Gladiators: 1964 the Vandal sack of Rome (dir. by Luigi Capuano) Kampf um Rom I: 1968 on the struggle in Italy ruled by the Ostrogoths, after the novel by Felix Dahn (dir. by Robert Siodmak) Kampf um Rom II : Der Verrat: 1969

  6. Franco-Visigothic Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Franco-Visigothic Wars were a series of wars between the Franks and the Visigoths, but it also involved the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths and the Romans.The most noteworthy war of the conflict would be the Second Franco-Visigothic War that included the famous Battle of Vouillé and resulted in Frankish annexation of most of Southern France.

  7. Visigothic Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Visigoths founded the only new cities in Western Europe between the fifth and eighth centuries. It is certain (through contemporary Spanish accounts) that they founded four, and a possible fifth city is ascribed to them by a later Arabic source. All of these cities were founded for military purposes and three of them in celebration of victory.

  8. ‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy Crafts a Wildly ...

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    In the culture-clash comedy “Meet the Barbarians,” actor-director Julie Delpy lays bare a number of Western hypocrisies. The film follows several townspeople in the struggling French commune ...

  9. Balt dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Visigoths as a nation were formed under the rule of Alaric I, the first named Balt, only in 395. [5] He famously sacked Rome in 410. His descendants continued to rule down to 531, when on the death of Amalaric the line went extinct. In 507, the Visigoths were defeated by the Franks at the Battle of Vouillé and lost most