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The Visigoths were a group of people in the time of Charlemagne; members of a branch of the Goth people. The Visigoths invaded the Roman Empire between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD. They ruled what is now Spain until 711, when they were defeated and overruled by the Moors.

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