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Pronunciation: [ɡˈɒθs] (IPA)

The word "Goths" is commonly used to refer to a Germanic people who played a significant role in European history during late antiquity. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe them. For example, they can be called the Visigoths or Ostrogoths, which differentiates between the two main branches of the group. Other synonyms include the Gutar, Gutans, and Gotones. Additionally, the term "barbarians" can be used, although it may be problematic due to its negative connotations. Regardless of the term used, the Goths made an impact on history and are an important part of the cultural and linguistic heritage of modern-day Europe.
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Within a few years some remains were unearthed which were attributed to the Goths, but of all the people who have been mentioned, they probably left fewer evidences of their presence in Malta than did any other race.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
The Creoles could agree on no affirmative programme, but all of them were determined that the "Goths" should not get the upper hand.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
It will end by becoming a mere administrative machine for levying the imperial taxes; men will fly from its crushing obligations to any refuge; and the flight of the curiales will be as momentous as the coming of the Goths.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill

Famous quotes with Goths

  • "That the people of America should be severed from Great Britain, even your fellow Congressionalists from the North would not be hardy enough yet to avow; but that this will certainly follow from the measures you have been induced by them to adopt, is obvious to every man who is permitted yet to think for himself. … see ye not that after some few years of civil broils all the fair settlements in the middle and southern colonies will be seized on by our more enterprising and restless fellow-colonists of the North? At first and for a while perhaps they may be contented to be the Dutch of America, i.e. to be our carriers and fishmongers, for which no doubt, as their sensible historian [] has observed, they seem to be destined by their situation, soil, and climate: but had so sagacious an observer foreseen that a time might come when all North America should be independent, he would, it is probable, have added to his other remark, that those his Northern brethren would then become also the Goths and Vandals of America."
    Jonathan Boucher
  • Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.
    Alan Coren
  • It is to Sir Isaac Newton's Application of Geometry to Philosophy, that we owe the routing of this Army of Goths and Vandals in the philosophical World;
    John Theophilus Desaguliers

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