Migration Period
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The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or Völkerwanderung (German for "wandering of the peoples"), was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between the years 300 to 700 A.D. in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. These movements were catalyzed by profound changes within both the Roman Empire and the so-called 'barbarian frontier'. Migrating peoples during this period included the Goths, Vandals, Bulgars, Alans, Suebi, Frisians, and Franks, among other Germanic, and Slavic tribes.
See also
- Dark Ages (historiography)
- Genetic history of the British Isles
- Late Antiquity
- Medieval demography
- Migration Period art
- Slavic migration
- Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms
- Hephthalite Empire
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