Migration period

period in European history with large migration of peoples, from the 4th to the 6th centuries

The migration period, or barbarian invasions or Völkerwanderung happened in AD 300–700 in Europe,[1][2] at the end of ancient history and during the Early Middle Ages.

2nd to fifth century simplified migrations. See also map of the world in AD 820.

The migrations included the Goths, Vandals, Franks, and other Germanic; Bulgar; and Slavic tribes.[3] They may have been influenced by attacks of the Huns in the East and may also be connected to the Turkic migrations in Central Asia, overpopulation, or climate changes. The migration period also included groups of Angles, Saxons, Frisians, and some Jutes to Britain.[4]

Migrations would continue well into the Middle Ages, beyond 1000 AD, with successive waves of Slavs, Roma, Avars, Bulgars, Hungarians, Pechenegs, Cumans, and Tatars, which changed the ethnic makeup of Eastern Europe.[5] Historians in Western Europe, however, tend to stress the migrations that were most relevant to that area.

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