It's strange how Goths didn't survive as a culture the way Romans or Franks did, there were a lot of them, surely many of us are their descendents, but almost no current population primarily identifies as their descendents
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I was under the impression they were the Spanish
not a historical geneticist, but at the time of the barbarian invasions, the Goths would presumably been a minority in southern Gaul/Spain, overlaid as a kind of military aristocracy over the Roman-identifying, Latin-speaking Mediterranean populations.
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so I'm sure there's some Gothic admixture, but the language and identity itself was stamped out by Justinian's wars and the Arab invasions. different story with other barbarian groups like the Franks.
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