Gothia

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

• Dacia, referred to as Gothia during the fourth century
• Götaland, the traditionally assumed homeland of the Goths
• the land of the Crimean Goths, referred to as Gothia by the Byzantines and Askuzai in Semitic sources (Hebrew: Ashkenaz).
• Principality of Theodoro, deriving from the Crimean Goths
• Septimania, land in southern France once inhabited by the Visigoths
• Languedoc, larger modern provincial name for the Septimania land of Gothia.
• Marca Hispanica, land in northern Spain whose inhabitants were considered Goths and not Franks in the 8th–10th centuries
• Catalonia, the name being possibly derived from "Gothic land"
• Metropolitanate of Gothia, a diocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Middle Ages

Gothia may also refer to:

• Gothia Cup, the world's largest annual association football cup by number of contestants, held in Gothenburg
• Gothia Towers, a hotel in Gothenburg.
• Arn de Gothia, a fictional medieval knight created by Jan Guillou
• Gothia, a city on the Euphrates river in the Ramadi (district) of Iraq, between Hit and Ramadi