Editing Goths (section)

====Crimean Goths====
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[[File:Mangup 10.jpg|right|thumb|Ruins of the citadel of [[Doros (Crimea)|Doros]], capital of the Crimean Goths]]
Gothic tribes who remained in the lands around the Black Sea,{{sfn|Heather|2018}} especially in [[Crimea]], were known as the [[Crimean Goths]]. During the late 5th and early 6th century, the Crimean Goths had to fend off hordes of Huns who were migrating back eastward after losing control of their European empire.{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|p=261}} In the 5th century, [[Theodoric the Great]] tried to recruit Crimean Goths for his campaigns in Italy, but few showed interest in joining him.{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|pp=271–80}} They affiliated with the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] through the [[Metropolitanate of Gothia]], and were then closely associated with the [[Byzantine Empire]].{{sfn|Vasiliev|1936|pp=117–}}

During the Middle Ages, the Crimean Goths were in perpetual conflict with the [[Khazars]]. [[John of Gothia]], the [[metropolitan bishop]] of [[Doros (Crimea)|Doros]], capital of the Crimean Goths, briefly expelled the Khazars from Crimea in the late 8th century, and was subsequently [[canonized]] as an [[List of Eastern Orthodox saints|Eastern Orthodox saint]].{{sfn|Vasiliev|1936|pp=117–35}}

In the 10th century, the lands of the Crimean Goths were once again raided by the Khazars. As a response, the leaders of the Crimean Goths made an alliance with [[Sviatoslav I of Kiev]], who subsequently waged war upon and utterly destroyed the [[Khazar Khaganate]].{{sfn|Vasiliev|1936|pp=117–35}} In the late Middle Ages the Crimean Goths were part of the [[Principality of Theodoro]], which was conquered by the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the late 15th century. As late as the 18th century a small number of people in Crimea may still have spoken [[Crimean Gothic]].{{sfn|Bennett|1965|p=27}}