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were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe,
the Ostrogoths being the other. Together these tribes were among
the barbarians who disturbed the late Roman Empire during the
Migration Period. The Visigoths first emerge as a distinct people
during the fourth century, initially in the Balkans, where they
participated in several wars with Rome. A Visigothic army under Alaric
I eventually moved into Italy and famously sacked Rome in 410.
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Of what remains of the Visigoths in Spain and Portugal there are
several churches and an increasing number of archaeological finds,
but most notably a large number of Spanish, Portuguese, and other
Romance language given names and surnames. The Visigoths were
the only people to found new cities in western Europe after the fall of
the Roman Empire and before the rise of the Carolingians. Until the
Late Middle Ages, the greatest Visigothic legacy, which is no longer in
use, was their law code, the Liber iudiciorum, which formed the basis
for legal procedure in most of Christian Iberia for centuries after their
kingdom's demise.