What is Ostrogoths?
[[File:Theodoric's Palace - Sant'Apollinare Nuovo - Ravenna 2016 (crop).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Mosaic depicting the palace of [[Theodoric the Great]] in his palace chapel of [[San Apollinare Nuovo]]]] 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]]. {{History-stub}} [[Category:Germanic tribes]]