Under their first leader, Alaric I, they invaded Italy and sacked Rome in August 410. Relations between the Romans and the Visigoths were variable, alternately warring with one another and making treaties when convenient. The Visigoths emerged from earlier Gothic groups, including a large group of Thervingi, who had moved into the Roman Empire beginning in 376 and had played a major role in defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The Visigoths ( / ˈ v ɪ z ɪ ɡ ɒ θ s/ Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is known as the Migration Period. The hanging letters spell ECCESVINTHVS REX OFFERET.
Detail of the votive crown of Reccesuinth from the Treasure of Guarrazar (Toledo, Spain), hanging in Madrid.
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