The Visigothic Kingdom was a kingdom in what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries.
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Tremissis depicting Liuvigild (568–586)
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 Greatest extent of the Visigothic Kingdom, c. 500 (Total extension shown in orange. Territory lost after Battle of Vouillé shown in light orange). |
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- 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)
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- Gothic paganism (initially)
- Chalcedonian Christianity
- Arianism
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| Government | Monarchy |
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• 415–418 | Wallia |
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• 418–451 | Theodoric I |
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• 466–484 | Euric |
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• 484–507 | Alaric II |
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• 511–526 | Theodoric the Great |
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• 568–586 | Liuvigild |
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• 586–601 | Reccared |
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• 612–621 | Sisebut |
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• 621–631 | Swintila |
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• 649–672 | Recceswinth |
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• 694–710 | Wittiza |
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• 710–711 | Roderic |
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• 714 – c. 721 | Ardo |
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• Sack of Rome | 410 |
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• Established | 418 |
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• Battle of Vouillé | 507 |
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• Annexation of the Suebic Kingdom | 585 |
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• Conquest of Byzantine Spania | 624 |
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• Battle of Guadalete and Umayyad conquest of Toledo | 711 |
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• Umayyad occupation of
Septimania | c. 721 |
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| 484[3] | 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) |
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| 580[3] | 600,000 km2 (230,000 sq mi) |
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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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