The eastern Goths on the northern shores of the Black Sea. They became vassals of the Huns whose westward migration displaced them and under Attila they were defeated by Roman and barbarian allied armies on the Catalaunian Fields, 451 ad. Forty years later Theodoric the Great established a kingdom in Italy. After the murder in 533 of Theodoric’s daughter, who was the regent of Italy, Justinian’s general Belisarius twice invaded and defeated them, and the Ostrogothic kingdom was crushed by Narses in 552.