The Visigoths in Hispania: new perspectives on their arrival and settlement

Javier Arce ^[1]
1. [1] Lille 1 University
  
  Lille 1 University
  
  Arrondissement de Lille, Francia
Localización: The Visigothic kingdom: the negotiation of power in Post-Roman Iberia / Sabine Panzram (ed. lit.), Paulo Pachá (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-94-6372-063-2, págs. 59-78
Idioma: inglés
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- This chapter tries to answer a series of questions about the first arrival of the Goths in Spain: the date and means of their arrival, their numbers, the exact identity of those entering the peninsula, where they settled, and how. Concerning the problem of who the people entering the peninsula were, the question is whether we can truly call them ‘Goths’. After considering the history of the Gothic people before their arrival in Aquitania and after they remained for more than a hundred years, I conclude that they were a mixture of peoples that represented a poly-ethnic group, a group clearly not made up exclusively of Goths, and perhaps including only very few.