The Crimean Goths themselves were a remnant of the migration-era Gothic population of Oium.
However, the women defended themselves and defeated the attackers under the leaders Lampedo and Marpesia.
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However, Philip needed gold and wanted to pillage the town of Odessos, a town belonging to the Goths.
Oium |
It probably corresponds to the Gothic kingdom of Oium as described by Jordanes in his work Getica, but it is nonetheless the result of a poly-ethnic cultural mélange of the Gothic, Getae-Dacian, Sarmatian and Slavic populations of the area.