The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar ... For centuries, Rome had been dealing with Germanic tribes, but by the 300s, the Goths had managed to infiltrate the empire.

when Rome was sacked by the Goths in A.D. 410, the official imperial capital was already slipping into irrelevance. A few years before, in 395, the splitting of the Roman Empire into western and ...

A Roman settlement found in Bulgaria next to the Via Militaris that ran through the ... with evidence of having been destroyed by fire, possibly linked to the Gothic raids of the mid-3rd century AD.

Their sudden presence disrupted established groups like the Goths and the Alans, triggering migrations that would shake the Roman Empire to its core. Ammianus Marcellinus, a contemporary Roman ...