Gothien
Gothien (Latin Got (h) ia ) was what the Franks called the area on the Mediterranean Sea north and south of the Pyrenees, populated by the Visigoths . After the fall of their Tolosan Empire (507), the Visigoths held their own against attacks by the Frankish king Clovis I and his successors; therefore this area remained a part of the Visigothic Empire, the focus of which had shifted to the Iberian Peninsula . Dukes of Gothien often provided the Visigothic kings, such as Leovigild in the 6th century or Sisenand in the 7th century.
After the collapse of the Visigoth Empire in 719, the area fell under Muslim rule. From 752 the part north of the Pyrenees by Pippin III. conquered for the Franconian Empire.
In addition to the north-east of what is now Catalonia , the area of Gothien also included substantial parts of the previously existing Roman diocese of Septem Provinciarum ("seven provinces"), also known as Septimania . The Franks therefore initially used the terms Gothien and Septimanien synonymously. To distinguish it from Septimania , which was located exclusively north of the Pyrenees, the name Gothien later mainly referred to the southern part in what is now Catalonia. After the Franks conquered this territory around 800, it became part of the Spanish Mark .
Gothien was ruled by dukes , mostly "from Septimania and / or Gothien". The duke was one of the counts of the duchy.
Other region of the same name
Also known as Gothia or Gothien , the south and east coast of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea appear in late medieval maps - at a time when the coastal cities there were under Genoese rule.
See also Crimean Goths and Genoese colonies .
See also
literature
- John Insley: Septimania. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , pp. 185-194.