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It is also probably only with Constantine V's reform that the Optimates' presence in Constantinople is brought to an end (and hence that of the Gothograeci as well).

Attestations

Writing in the final years of the seventh or first half of the eighth century, Cosmas of Jerusalem provides the earliest evidence of a region called Gothia in Asia Minor. In passage describing the portage of boats across the Thracian Chersonese,

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