What is Migration period?
The '''migration period''', or '''barbarian invasions''' or '''Völkerwanderung''' happened in AD 300–700 in [[Europe]],<ref>Precise dates given may vary; ones that are often cited are 410, the sack of Rome by [[Alaric I]], or 751, the accession of [[Pepin the Short]] and the establishment of the [[Carolingian dynasty]].</ref><ref>''Climate change and human mobility: challenges to the social sciences'', eds. Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 29.</ref> at the end of [[ancient history]] and during the [[Early Middle Ages]]. [[File:Invasions_of_the_Roman_Empire_1.png|thumb|center|500px|2nd to fifth century simplified migrations. See also [[:Image:World 820.png|map of the world in AD 820]].]] The migrations included the [[Goths]], [[Vandals]], [[Franks]], and other [[Germanic tribes|Germanic]]; Bulgar; and [[Slavic peoples|Slavic tribes]].<ref>John Bagnell Bury, ''A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 A.D.)'' (London; New York: Macmillan and Company, 1889), p. 31</ref> 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]].<ref>Peter Hunter Blair; Simon Keynes, ''An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 10</ref> Migrations would continue well into the [[Middle Ages]], beyond [[1000]] AD, with successive waves of [[Slavs]], [[Roma people|Roma]], [[Eurasian Avars|Avars]], Bulgars, [[Hungarians]], [[Pechenegs]], [[Cumans]], and [[Tatars]], which changed the ethnic makeup of Eastern Europe.<ref>Lucy Mallows, ''Transylvania'' (Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, 2008), p. 18</ref> Historians in Western Europe, however, tend to stress the migrations that were most relevant to that area. ==Related pages== * [[Human migration]] == Re