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When Goths arrived in the Carpathian-Pontic region, there were lots of other groups of Dacian, Germanic and Sarmatian descent, some agriculturalists, some nomadic, some both.
Would there have been a difference for the Roman Empire and the nature of the Germanic tribal kingdoms on its territory if, instead of Goths led by Balthi and Amali, some other group emerged as leader of the loose confederacies! Gepids, Heruli, Bastarnae, Roxolani, Costoboci, Carpi, ...?
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