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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 272 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOTHIC , the See also:

term generally applied to See also:medieval See also:architecture, and more especially to that in which the pointed See also:arch appears. The See also:style was at one See also:time supposed to have originated with the warlike See also:people known as the Goths, some of whom (the See also:East Goths, or See also:Ostrogoths) settled in the eastern portion of See also:Europe, and others (the See also:West Goths, or Visigoths) in- the See also:Asturias of See also:Spain; but as no buildings or remains of any description have ever been found, in which there are any traces of an See also:independent construction in either See also:brick or See also:stone, the See also:title is misleading; since, however, it is now so generally accepted it would be difficult to See also:change it. The term when first employed was one of reproach, as See also:Evelyn (1702) , when speaking of the faultless See also:building (i.e. classic) says, " they were demolished by the Goths or See also:Vandals, who introduced their own licentious style now called See also:modern or Gothic." The employment of the pointed arch in See also:Syria, See also:Egypt and See also:Sicily, from the 8th See also:century onwards by the Mahommedans for their mosques and gateways, some four centuries before it made its See also:appearance in Europe, also makes it advisable to adhere to the old term Gothic in preference to Pointed Architecture.

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