The Goths were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
Depiction of a Gothic warrior battling Roman cavalry, from the 3rd century Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus
A stone circle in the area of northern Poland occupied by the Wielbark culture, which is associated with the Goths
Gothic invasions in the 3rd century
The 3rd-century Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus depicts a battle between Goths and Romans.
Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable text corpus. All others, including Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts, and from loanwords in other, mainly Romance, languages.
A leaf of the Codex Ambrosianus B