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‖ Völkerwanderung|ˈfœlkərˌvandərʊŋ|
Pl. -ungen.
[G., f. völker pl. of Volk + wanderung migration.]
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 attrib.
[1885: see Volkswanderung s.v. Volk 3 b.] 1934A. Toynbee Study of Hist. II. 97 The last convulsion of the post-Minoan Völkerwanderung along the west coast of Anatolia. 1946Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 24 Subsequent encroachments..by Goths, Franks and others during the Age of Migration (Völkerwanderung) are discussed. 1961L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Language iii. 52 The Germanic expansion of the Völkerwanderung period. 1969J. Mander Static Society i. 46 The Germanic Völkerwanderungen after the fall of the Roman Empire. |