Goths
East Germanic ethnolinguistic group
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Summary
Goths is a historical ethnic group[1]. Goths ranks in the top 1% of historical ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,983 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: East Germanic tribes[3]
- Commons category: Goths[4]
- Has part(s): Visigoths[5], Crimean Goths[6], Ostrogoths[7], Moesogoths[8]
- Start time: 100[9]
- End time: 1475[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Goths[11], Category:Gothic people[12]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[15], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[18], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], New International Encyclopedia[20]
- Participant in: Gothic War of 401–403[21]
- Different from: Goth[22], Godo[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24]
Body
Influence
Things named for Goths include Gothic art[25], an art movement[26], in France[27] and Gothicism[28], a cultural movement[29], in Sweden[30].
Why It Matters
Goths has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Goths is known by 79 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]
Entities named for Goths include Gothic art[25], an art movement[26], in France[27] and Gothicism[28], a cultural movement[29], in Sweden[30].