Visigothic Kingdom
Germanic successor state to the Western Roman Empire on the Iberian Peninsula (418–720) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Visigothic Kingdom was a kingdom in what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries.
Quick Facts Kingdom of the VisigothsRegnum Gothorum, Capital ...
Kingdom of the Visigoths Regnum Gothorum | |||||||||||||
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418–c. 721 | |||||||||||||
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Religion |
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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 | ||||||||||||
451 | |||||||||||||
• Battle of Vouillé | 507 | ||||||||||||
• Annexation of the Suebic Kingdom | 585 | ||||||||||||
• Conquest of Byzantine Spania | 624 | ||||||||||||
711 | |||||||||||||
• Umayyad occupation of Septimania | c. 721 | ||||||||||||
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484[3] | 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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.