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The Visigoths were the Goths of the west, and the Ostrogoths were the Goths of the east. The Goths were originally from southern Sweden. They migrated to the Baltic coast in Poland and later to Ukraine where they formed a kingdom. The Visigoths asked the Romans to be allowed to settle in the lower Danube area of the Roman Empire to escape the invasion of Eastern Europe by the Hun and were granted this. The Ostrogoths fell under Hun rule. After the fall of the Hun Empire the Visigoths also settled in the Roman Empire (in eastern Austria).

The Goths were one of the Germanic peoples. Germanic is a language group which comprises German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English. The Germanic peoples of antiquity were the ancestors of the modern people who speak these languages.
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