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During this time, there were massive invasions of peoples into Western and Southern Europe, at the time provinces of the Empire. These people were mainly all the Germanic tribes (but there were others like the iranian Avars and the Huns who's ancestry and language are unknown to us) that lived beyond the ''limes'', the border represented by the Rhine and Danube between what was Rome and what was ''Barbaricum'' ([[UsefulNotes/GermanicWars Germanic tribes never subjugated by Romans]]). This period curiously changes name in a PerspectiveFlip between Romance languages and Germanic languages: in Germanic languages is ''Migration Period" Völkerwanderung, in Romance languages and Greek, is called the "Barbarian Invasions" (after all, [[InvadingRefugees the formers' ancestors were migrating to better lands, the latters' ancestors were flooded by Germanic tribes]] never heard about in a matter of few decades).

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During this time, there were massive invasions of peoples into Western and Southern Europe, at the time provinces of the Empire. These people were mainly all the Germanic tribes (but there were others like the iranian Avars and the Huns who's ancestry and language are unknown to us) that lived beyond the ''limes'', the border represented by the Rhine and Danube between what was Rome and what was ''Barbaricum'' ([[UsefulNotes/GermanicWars Germanic tribes never subjugated by Romans]]). This period curiously changes name in a PerspectiveFlip between Romance languages and Germanic languages: in Germanic languages is ''Migration Period" is Völkerwanderung, in Romance languages and Greek, it is called the "Barbarian Invasions" (after all, [[InvadingRefugees the formers' ancestors were migrating to better lands, the latters' ancestors were flooded by Germanic tribes]] never heard about in a matter of few decades).

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