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s Teutonic race whose earliest | his ___ Frown home was the southern shores and | spe _ Selands of the Baltic. They gradually| ¢ i ‘Bilgrated southward through Central | lan _ Burope, and early in the 3rd century, A.D., | anc settled in districts bordering on the north | soil: s he Black Sea and the Danube. By the | in die of the 4th century the Goths had | th yme the dominant race of the nonnan — of Europe, and their kingdom | an in a broad band from the Black | ch to the Baltic. Constant attacks on | da Roman frontiers had led the Roman | be: per or, Aurelian, to concede Dacia, | in antry north of the Danube, to a large | go ion of the Goths, on condition that they { ied men to the Roman army. These |ad bs and their descendants were after- | co: ds spoken of as Visigoths, i.e., Western | cri is, to distinguish them from the |G.’ ainder, the Ostrogoths, or Eastern Goths. | cri Hunnish invasion about 375 drove f Visigoths over tho Danube, where, | De r severe fighting, they settled, with | an: jal privileges, under Roman rule. | on ler their leader, Alario, they rose in | filt llion, over-ran Grecce, and entering | Jer y took Rome by storm in 410. On| | ric’a death soon alter, thoy left Italy | pr: Gaul, and thero helped to crush the | ev ~s under Attila. Driven by the Franks | pls r the fore they formed a kingdom | thy pain, but in the Sth century Moorish | for ions led to closer union with the | sp nish peoples, and as a distinct nation | wi Visizoths disappeared. th [s. 160]