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The
Ostrogoths
were the eastern branch of the later
Goths
. The other major branch was the
Visigoths
.
The Ostrogoths started with the
Greutungi
, a branch of the Goths that moved southward from the
Baltic Sea
during the 3rd and the 4th centuries.
They built an empire that stretched from the
Black Sea
to the
Baltic Sea
and traded with the
Roman Empire
. Its peak was under King
Ermanaric
.
After the collapse of the
Western Roman Empire
, the Ostrogoths built a new kingdom in northern
Italy
centred in
Ravenna
.