Völkerwanderungn.
A migration of a people or peoples en masse, spec. that of Germanic and other peoples in Europe during the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages. Also attributive.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [noun] > en masse
great migration1838
folk wave1880
Völkerwanderung1934
1855 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 9 Jan. (1954) II. 190 The subject I now propose is ‘Women in Germany’..through the periods of the Volkswanderung and the romantic..life of the Middle Ages up to our own day.]
1934 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. II. 97 The last convulsion of the post-Minoan Völkerwanderung along the west coast of Anatolia.
1946 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 24 Subsequent encroachments..by Goths, Franks and others during the Age of Migration (Völkerwanderung) are discussed.
1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. iii. 52 The Germanic expansion of the Völkerwanderung period.
1969 J. Mander Static Society i. 46 The Germanic Völkerwanderungen after the fall of the Roman Empire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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