Amal dynasty

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The Amali – also called Amals, Amalings or Amalungs – were a leading dynasty of the Goths, a Germanic people who confronted the Roman Empire during the decline of the Western Roman Empire.^[1] They eventually became the royal house of the Ostrogoths and founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom.^[2]