Note {33} — I. THE GERMANS AND THE EMPIRE TO 1073
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Alaric II, king of the West Goths, 485–507. At this time the strength of the West Gothic kingdom was apparently in southern Gaul with the capital at Toulouse. After the defeat of Alaric and the acquisition by the Franks of most of the land north of the Pyrenees, the kingdom of the West Goths was practically confined to Spain.