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King Euric of the Visigoths conquers southern Gallaecia and Lusitania to the Suevi. 475 – King Euric (who unified the various quarreling factions of the Visigoths) forces the Roman government to grant the Visigothic kingdom full independence. At his death, the Visigoths were the most powerful of the successor states to the Western Roman Empire.
The Visigoths with their capital at Toulouse, remained de facto independent, and soon began expanding into Roman territory at the expense of the feeble Western empire. Under Theodoric I (418–451), the Visigoths attacked Arles (in 425 [10] and 430 [11]) and Narbonne (in 436), [11] but were checked by Litorius using Hunnic mercenaries.
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.
Prehistoric Iberia; Early history. ... Kingdom of the Visigoths (418–721) Byzantine Spania (552–624) ... Timeline of Spanish history
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, ... 18th century map of Iberia: Prehistory. ... Kingdom of the Visigoths (418–721 ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Burgos, ... Prehistoric Iberia; Early history. ... Kingdom of the Visigoths (418–721) Byzantine Spania ...
The Visigoths ended the Roman administration in Spain in 473, and their overlordship of most of the eastern and central peninsula was established by 476. A large-scale migration of the Visigoths into Iberia began in 494 under Alaric II , and it became the seat of their power after they lost most of their territory in Gaul to the Franks after ...
The Visigoths eventually conquered the Suevi kingdom and its capital city Bracara in 584–585. The Germanic tribe of the Buri also accompanied the Suevi in their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and colonization of Gallaecia (modern northern Portugal and Galicia ).