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A woman dressed in gothic style in June 2008. Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre.
Remnants of Gothic communities in Crimea, known as the Crimean Goths, established a culture that survived for more than a thousand years, [5] although Goths would eventually cease to exist as a distinct people. [6] [7] Gothic architecture, Gothic literature and the modern-day Goth subculture ultimately derive their names from the ancient Goths ...
A more specific theory about the word Gautigoths is that it means the Goths who live near the river Gaut, [5] today's Göta älv (Old Norse: Gautelfr). [8] It might also have been a conflation of the word Gauti with a gloss of Goths. [9] In the 17th century the name Göta älv, 'River of the Geats', replaced the earlier names Götälven and ...
The Gothic language, known from their bible translation and fragmentary evidence, is the only clearly attested member of what modern linguists designate as the East Germanic language family, because it was already distinct from the two Germanic families that have survived today, West Germanic and North Germanic, which were originally ...
Map of Gothia – territory of the Crimean Goths. The Crimean Goths were either a Greuthungi-Gothic tribe or a Western Germanic tribe that bore the name Gothi, a title applied to various Germanic tribes that remained in the lands around the Black Sea, especially in Crimea. They were the longest-lasting of the Gothic communities.
During their long stay here, these Scythian Goths supposedly battled against Egyptian and Middle Eastern empires, creating the Median empire, some Goths became the ancestors of the Parthians (V-VI). Some of the Gothic women, when carried away, became the Amazons and held the kingdoms of Asia for almost a year before returning to the Goths (VII).
Another interpretation is that an[d]ja means "cape" so that the whole word means "gothic peninsula". It is also possible that the word is a product of conflation of the words gothic and Scandinavia. [2] Herwig Wolfram mentions "Gothic coast" and "Gothic Scandia" but prefers the latter, thinking that the former is "linguistically questionable". [3]
The Batcave was a weekly club-night launched at 69 Dean Street in central London in 1982. It is considered to be the birthplace of the Southern English goth subculture.It lent its name to the term Batcaver, used to describe the early fans of gothic rock music, who would adorn themselves in Batwing coffin necklaces to distinguish themselves from other goth clubs.