…the Huns quickly overthrow the Greuthungs (Greutingi), probably the people later known as the Ostrogoths, who, invading southward from the Baltic Sea in the previous century, had built up a huge state stretching from the Don to the Dniester rivers (in present-day Ukraine) and from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes (southern Belarus).
The kingdom has reached its highest point under King Ermanaric, who, when the Huns attack his people and subjugate them about 376, is said to have committed suicide at an advanced age.
(Although many Greuthung graves have been excavated south and southeast of Kiev, little is known about their state.
The Greuthungs were probably literate in the third century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed.)
