With the exception of Ugnas, bishops in this people’s kingdom protested high taxes for the fisc, citing a 6th-century church council where the filioque (“fill-ee-OH-kway”) clause was codified in Western Christianity. Coins from this people’s mint at Senimure-Semure were confused with ones from Sabaria, which was nested between the Suebi and this people’s territory. Sapphires from Sri Lanka can be found on the votive crown for a king of this people, Recceswinth (“RECK-uh-swinth”). The Roman general Flavius Aetius fought alongside a king of this people against Attila at the Battle of Châlons (“sha-LON”). The 711 Battle of Guadalete ended with the death of this people’s king Roderic to Tariq ibn Ziyad during an Umayyad invasion. For 10 points, what Germanic tribe governed early Medieval Spain and led a 410 sack of Rome under Alaric? ■END■
ANSWER: Visigoths [or Visigothi or Wisigothi or Vesi or Visi or Wesi or Wisi; accept Kingdom of the Visigoths or Visigothic Kingdom or Visigothic Spain; prompt on Goths or Kingdom of the Goths or Regnum Gothum; reject “Ostrogoths”] (The church council is the Third Council of Toledo.)
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