Gothia

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Gothia, in a 1635 Dutch map.
Gothia, in a 1635 Dutch map.

Gothia is a name given to various places where the Goths lived during their migrations:

  • Götaland, the traditional original homeland of the Goths.
  • Gothic Crimea, see Crimean Goths.
  • "Hispanic March". This was a series of Counties ruled by Franks in the late 8th century and 9th century of formerly Visigothic lands north and south of the Pyrenees. (See Septimania).
  • "Gothia Land" (in latin Gathia Launia), This is hypothetical origin of the name of Catalonia which eventually emerged from the Hispanic March.
  • A city on the Euphrates river in the Ramadi district of Iraq, between Hit, Iraq and Ramadi.