Alaric I

Alaric I (Alaric or Alarich, in Latin Alaricus and in Spanish Alarico) was likely born about 370 CE on an island named Peuce (the Fir) at the mouth of the Danube, became king of the Visigoths from 395–410, and was the first Germanic leader to take the city of Rome.

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370 - Danube - 395 - 410 - Rome

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He was well born, his father kindred to the Balti, considered next in worth among Gothic fighters to the Amali. He was a Goth and belonged to the western branch, called the Visigoths, who at the time of his birth dwelt in what is today Bulgaria, having fled beyond the wide estuary marshes of the Danube to its southern shore so as not to be followed by their foe from the steppe, the Huns.

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Balti - Amali - Goth - Visigoths - Bulgaria - Danube - Steppe - Huns

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