Gothia
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Gothia is a name given to various places where the Goths lived during their migrations:
- Götaland, the traditional original homeland of the Goths.
- Dacia was referred to as Gothia during the fourth century, when it was settled by Goths.
- Gothic Crimea, see Principality of Theodoro.
- "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.