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There's Visigoths and Ostrogoths and Vandals, who spoke Gothic so I'll lump them in with Goths. Did they understand themselves to be Goths or is "Goths" an exonym applied by the Romans to these various East Germanic groups with little relation to one another?

by /u/Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX in /r/AskHistorians

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