The Visigothic leader despised the service of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

A Visigothic crown was an hypnotic mass of uncut jewels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference

Alfonso II reestablished Visigothic styles of administration in Asturias.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Christian Spain, Castile and Leon] Reference

Visigothic empire when thus overturned had lasted nearly three hundred years.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

After the Visigothic invasion of Spain the Vandals passed over to North Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

The cortes apparently originated from councils of nobles dating from Visigothic days.    From Wordnik.com.  [d. The Iberian Peninsula] Reference

Visigothic speech gradually disappeared, and the current vernacular was of Latin origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [j. Spain] Reference

In these lands they founded an independent Visigothic kingdom, the first to be created on Roman soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

MS. of this Lombard recast of the Visigothic code was discovered by Hänel in the library of St Gall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The old Visigothic aristocracy, by this time almost extinguished, was replaced by a rich middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Muslim Spain] Reference

The Mozarabic scholar Dom Marius Férotin, OSB, for example, preferred the term "Visigothic rite" over Mozarabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mozarabic Rite: Introduction] Reference

He was Don Rodrigo, doomed Visigothic King of Spain, in Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera's opera of the same name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

About 50 m. from the city is the abbey of Silos, which appears to have been founded under the Visigothic kings, as early as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Alaric's Visigothic army sacked the city in the fourth century A.D., and its buildings were destroyed by earthquakes and floods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanctuary of the Gods] Reference

In the time of Euric (466–84) the Visigothic rule extended from the Loire to Gibraltar and from the Bay of Biscay to the Rhône.    From Wordnik.com.  [j. Spain] Reference

Fritigern, hoping to carve a Visigothic empire out of the Roman provinces, ravaged Thrace for two years but could not take Adrianople.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. The Visigoths] Reference

Under Visigothic rule the administration in general remained Roman, and the language of government continued to be a Latin vernacular.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. The Visigoths] Reference

In Patones, a Carpetano-Roman town site; in Colmenar Viejo, a Visigothic necropolis; and in Sieteiglesias, an early medieval cemetery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madrid opens a series of archaeological sites to the public] Reference

Parts of the great Visigothic kingdom which extended from the River Loire through the Iberian peninsula included very Roman barbarians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference

The Ordenaçoes Affonsinas, the first great law code of the Portuguese, representing an amalgam of Roman, Visigothic, and customary law.    From Wordnik.com.  [1433-38] Reference

Pelayo, with the Visigothic leaders who escaped Tarik, created the kingdom of Asturias in northwestern Spain, south of the Bay of Biscay.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Christian Spain, Castile and Leon] Reference

Clovis subsequently conquered the Visigothic possessions between the Loire and the Pyrenees, and compelled the Burgundians to pay tribute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Roderick, the last Visigothic king, was completely defeated in the battle on the Guadalete (Rio Barbate), whereupon his kingdom collapsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Muslim Spain] Reference

Spain, the Visigothic lords of which were still an aristocracy of bitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference

The Franks have not massacred Visigothic man, woman, and child, from Loire to Garonne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens] Reference

The persecutions of the Jews by the Visigothic kings of Spain and the Bishops Avitus of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history] Reference

The result of this battle was the complete overthrow of the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference

Visigothic kingdom, which had become Catholic (586-601), was much enfeebled, and a prey to discord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

This latter was, on the death of his father, proclaimed king by some fraction of the Visigothic people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference

Thus there remained but one undisputed heir to what was left of the great Visigothic kingdom, the little child Amalaric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference

Under the Visigothic empire the Jews multiplied exceedingly in the country, and were permitted to acquire considerable power and wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1] Reference

Visigothic king (586-601), became a Catholic in 587, and held the council of 589 to effect the conversion of the nation to his new faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference