The Great Migration of the Germanic Peoples in the Ostrogothic Kingdom

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Map of Nordic Bronze Age culture (about 1200 BC)

Archaeologists and linguists from Evidence from the Nordic Bronze Age culture (note: refer to the map) infers that the birthplace of the Germanic people should be in today's southern Scandinavia, Jutland and northern Germany. The Germanic peoples had already expanded from their birthplace by the fifth century BC.

The contact between the Germanic tribes that first approached the border of the Roman Empire and the Roman Empire included trade and immigration. Some Germanic people became slaves, and some Germanic people joined the Roman Empire’s army in the form of individual or group alliances. , the Roman Empire also had conquests with some Germanic tribes. By the fourth century, the armies of the Roman Empire were often Germanic armies under Roman command, and the Germanic people's status in the Roman army gradually became more important.

At the end of the fourth century, the Huns from Central Asia moved westward, and the Germans living on the borders of the Roman Empire once again poured into the Roman Empire in large numbers seeking refuge. In the fifth century, the Germans who moved into the Roman Empire established several kingdoms in the Roman Empire, such as the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, the Frankish Kingdom in Gaul, and so on.