The least-powerful, least-known, and paradoxically longest-lived Gothic communities were those that remained in the lands around the Black Sea, especially in the Crimea. A Gothic principality around the stronghold of Doros (modern Mangup Kale) continued to exist through various periods of vassalage to the Byzantines, Khazars, Kipchaks, Mongols, Genoese and other empires until well into the 1500’s, when it was finally incorporated by the Girai Khanate. This article is about the Germanic tribes. ... Satellite view of the Black Sea, taken by NASA MODIS Cities of the Black Sea The Black Sea (known as the Euxine Sea in the antiquity) is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. ... The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered around its capital in Constantinople. ... The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia, many of whom converted to Judaism. ... Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ... Alternate uses, see Genoa (disambiguation). ...

While initially Arian Christians like other Gothic peoples, by the 500's the Crimean Goths were fully Orthodox. Many of them were Greek speakers and many non-Gothic Byzantine citizens settled in the region called "Gothia" by the government in Constantinople. This article is about the theological doctrine of Arius. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... Map of Constantinople. ...

Crimean Gothic language texts from this region exist as late as the late 1500’s and Gothic communities appear to have survived intact until the late 1700’s, when many were deported by Catherine the Great. Their language vanished by the 1800’s. Crimean Gothic language is derived from the Gothic language that was spoken in some isolated locations in Crimea (now Ukraine) until the 18th century. ... Catherine II (Екатерина II Алексеевна: Yekaterína II Alekséyevna, April 21, 1729 - November 6, 1796), born Sophie Augusta Fredericka, known as Catherine the Great, reigned as empress of Russia from June 28, 1762, to her death on November 6, 1796. ...

The so-called Volga Germans who could be found in southern Russia as late as World War II were not Goths. They were a later population who spoke a German dialect, i.e. a West Germanic language, as opposed to the East Germanic Gothic language. The Volga Germans are ethnic Germans living near the Volga River and the Black Sea, maintaining German culture, German language, German traditions and religions: Evangelical Lutherans or Roman Catholic. ... The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German. ... The tribes referred to as East Germanic constitute a wave of migrants who moved from Scandinavia into the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers between 600 - 300 BC. In historical times these tribes were differentiated as Goths, Burgundians and Vandals among others. ... The Gothic language (gutiska razda, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺) is a Germanic language known to us by a translation of the Bible dating from the 4th century. ...

See also

• Gothiscandza
• Gutasaga
• Ostrogoths
• Scandza
• Visigoths
• Wielbark culture

Gothiscandza was according to the 6th century Goth scholar Jordanes, the first settlement of the Goths after their migration from Scandinavia (Scandza). ... This article deals with the continental Ostrogoths. ... Scandza was the name given to Scandinavia by Jordanes, in his work Getica. ... The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ...

Sources

• Vasiliev, Aleksandr A. The Goths in the Crimea. Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1936.