Yuan Ying and Xiao Baoyin follow up by attacking the Liang fortress Zhongli in modern Chuzhou, Anhui), but are dealt a crushing defeat by the Liang general Wei Rui in spring 507.

The two states largely stop their military activities against each other after this point.

The Germanic Thuringii had appeared after about 350 and had been conquered by the Huns in the second quarter of the fifth century; examination of Thuringian grave sites reveal cranial features which suggest the strong presence of Hunnic women or slaves, perhaps indicating that many Thuringians took Hunnic wives or Hunnic slaves following the collapse of the Hunnic Empire. (Schutz, Herbert. The Germanic Realms in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400–750. American University Studies, Series IX: History, Vol. 196; p. 411. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.)

There is also evidence from jewelry found in graves that the Thuringians sought marriages with Ostrogothic and Lombard women.

The Thrungiii had by 500 established a large kingdom stretching from the Harz mountains to the Danube.

Hermanafrid, king of the Thuringii, marries Amalaberga, the daughter of Amalafrida, daughter of Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths.

Her father is unknown; her uncle is Theodoric the Great.

He begins his rule in 507, shared with his brothers Baderic and Bertachar.

Anastasius, alarmed by the depredations of Slavs and Bulgars in Thrace, builds the Anastasian Wall from the Black Sea to Propontis, across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople.

Anastasius completes the strategic fortress at Dara, raising the city walls to thirty feet (ten meters) to the disregard of Persian protests.

A sporting event is held on July 9, 507 at Daphne, near Antioch, in the form of a chariot race between two parties, the Greens and the Whites.

The supporters of the Greens attack the local synagogue for no apparent reason, killing the Jews inside.

Alaric has endeavored strictly to maintain the treaty which his father had concluded with the Franks.

The Frankish king Clovis I, however, desirous of obtaining the Gothic province in Gaul, finds a pretext for war in Alaric’s Arianism.

The intervention of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths and father-in-law of Alaric, proves unavailing.

As a consequence of their defeat at Vouillé, the Visigoths lose all their possessions in Gaul to the Franks, except Septimania (i.e.

the western region of Gallia Narbonensis, which includes the contemporary Arles and the Provence).

The Franks capture Toulouse.

Alaric is succeeded by his eldest son, the illegitimate Gesalec, because his legitimate son Amalaric is still a child.

Gesalec establishes his residence at Narbonne and is supported by an alliance with the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great.

Clovis’s defeat of the Visigoths at Vouillé in 507 extends Frankish rule to the whole southern region of Aquitaine, including Poitou and Saintonge, to the Pyrenees.

He now controls all of Gaul except Burgundy, Provence, and Septimania.

The Agri Decumantes, the area of southwestern Germany now known as Alemannia (and later known as Swabia, for the Suebi (Suevi) who, with the Alemanni, had seized the area from Rome in the fourth century), passes under Frankish control around this time.