Migration Period From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about European migrations in the early part of the first millennium A.D. For prehistoric migrations, see Human migration. For the 2003 Canadian film, see The Barbarian Invasions. This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the German Wikipedia. (January 2012) Click [show] on the right to read important instructions before translating.[show] Migration Period Migrations Time 400–700 AD Place Europe and Northern Africa Event Tribes invading the declining Roman Empire The Migration Period, also known as the period of the barbarian invasions or as the Völkerwanderung[1] (migration of peoples in German), was a period of intensified human migration in Europe from about 376 to 800 AD[2][3] during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. This period was marked by profound changes both within the Roman Empire and beyond its barbarian frontier. The migrants who came first were Germanic tribes such as the Goths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Lombards, Suebi, Frisii and Franks; they were later pushed westwards by the Huns, Avars, Slavs, Bulgars and Alans.[4] Later migrations (such as the Arab conquest and Viking, Norman, Hungarian, Moorish, Turkic, and Mongol invasions) also had significant effects (especially in North Africa, the Iberian peninsula, Anatolia and Central and Eastern Europe); however, they are outside the scope of the Migration Period. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period
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