Alaric I (Alareiks in the original
Gothic; Alarik or Alarich in modern Germanic languages; Alaricus in Latin; and Alarico in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), was likely born about
370 on an
island named Peuce (the Fir) at the mouth of the
Danube. He was king of the
Visigoths from
395–410 and the first
Germanic leader to take the city of
Rome. Having originally desired to settle his people in the Roman Empire, he finally sacked the city, marking the decline of imperial power in the west.
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