Some manuscripts suggest that "Catalunya" (Latin "Gathia Launia") "Gothia" (or "Gauthia"), "Land of the Goths", since the origins of the Catalan counts, lords and people were found in the ancient March of Gothia, known as "Gothia", whence "Gothland" > "Gothlandia" > "Gothalania" from which "Catalonia" has been theoretically derived. During the Middle Ages, Byzantine chroniclers claimed that "Catalania" derives from the local medley of Goths with Alans, initially constituting a "Goth-Alania". Alternatively, the name may come from the word "ca(s)telan" (inhabitant of the castle) as the area had many fortifications.