GOTHIA

'Gothia' is a name given to various places where the Goths lived during their migrations:

★ Götaland, the traditional original homeland of the Goths.

★ Gothic Crimea, see Crimean Goths.

★ "Hispanic March". This was a series of Counties ruled by Franks in the late 8th century and 9th century of formerly Visigothic lands north and south of the Pyrenees. (See Septimania).

★ "Gothia Land" (in Latin ''Gathia Launia''), This is hypothetical origin of the name of Catalonia which eventually emerged from the Hispanic March.

★ A city on the Euphrates river in the Ramadi district of Iraq, between Hit, Iraq and Ramadi.