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Definition of Ostrogoth
1. Noun. A member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD.
Definition of Ostrogoth
1. n. One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.
Definition of Ostrogoth
1. Noun. Any member of an ancient East Germanic tribe, one branch of the Goths (the Visigoths being the other), which invaded Italy in the sixth century ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostrogoth
Literary usage of Ostrogoth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"Birth, Education, and first Exploits of Theodoric the Ostrogoth.—His Invasion
nnd Conquest of Italy.—The Gothic Kingdom of Italy.—State of the West. ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... THE Ostrogoth; THE FALL OF EUTROPIUS Yet the sanguinary laws which spread
terror among a disarmed and dispirited people were of too weak a texture to ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Ostrogoth, Burgundian and Frank. Eventually (538) the latter, under King
Childebert, obtained full sway in ancient Gaul. During the long conflict, ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"In 475, Theodoric, the greatest of the Ostrogoth sovereigns, succeeded to the throne
... During his reign, the Ostrogoth kingdom included, besides Italy, ..."
5. A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"The Edict of Theodoric the Ostrogoth.1 — The Edict of Theodoric is the first, in
point of time, among the legislative memorials of this period. ..."
6. A History of Mediaeval and Modern Europe for Secondary Schools by William Stearns Davis, Norman Shaw McKendrick (1914)
"Theodoric the Ostrogoth and the later Germanic kingdoms. Odoacer did not rule long.
Another branch of the Goths came on the scene: the Ostrogoths, ..."
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