!!!Ostgoten

Ostrogoths, branch of a Germanic people, the Goths, who, pushed 
westwards by the invading Huns, moved from the Ukraine, crossed the 
Danube in 405 under King Ragais and settled in Pannonia. Those 
Ostrogoths who had remained under Hunnic rule participated in the 
Battle of the Catalonian Plains in 451. In 454 the Ostrogoths 
separated from the Huns and converted to Arianism; King Thiudimir's 
realm extended around lake "Pelsois" (Lake Neusiedl or Lake 
Balaton). Under King Theodoric (the commander of the army of Eastern 
Roman emperor Zeno) the Ostrogoths invaded Italy in 488 and defeated  
Odoacer. Theodoric's ("Dietrich von Bern" in German epics) kingdom, 
which continued in existence until 553, also included the Alpine part 
of present-day Austria.

!Literature
H. Wolfram, Die Goten, %%sup 3/%1990.


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