barbarian invasionsEuropean history

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• Athens Athens

  ...capture of the city in 86 bc and had fallen into ruin, were rebuilt, and the circuit was extended to include the new suburb northeast of the Olympieion. This was done because of the threat of a barbarian invasion, but when that invasion came, in ad 267, the walls were of no avail. The Heruli, a Germanic people from northern Europe, easily captured Athens, and, though the historian P....

• Austria Austria

  ...Ovilava (Wels), Virunum (near Klagenfurt), Teurnia (near Spittal), and Flavia Solva (near Leibnitz). North of the Danube the Germanic tribes of the Naristi, Marcomanni, and Quadi settled. Their invasions in ad 166–180 arrested the peaceful development of the provinces, and, even after their repulse by the emperor Marcus Aurelius, the country could not regain its former prosperity....

• Europe Europe, history of

  Barbarian migrations and invasions

• Five Good Emperors Five Good Emperors

  ...The wars along the Danube and in the East that marked the last years of Marcus Aurelius’s rule were caused by the massive movement of populations outside the empire that was to lead to the “barbarian invasions” of later centuries and the empire’s eventual collapse.

• Greece Greece, history of

  ...as well as for social relations between provincial elites and the state establishment. Nevertheless, the cities of the southern Balkans were able to survive the raids and devastation of both Goths and Huns in the 4th and 5th centuries, and there is no evidence that cities ceased to carry on their function, where it existed, as centres of market activity, local administration, and social...

• Italy Italy

  The Germanic invasions of the years after 400 did...

• discussed in biography Arcand, Denys

  French Canadian filmmaker whose movies, most notably Les Invasions barbares (2003; The Barbarian Invasions), embodied his intellectual curiosity and passion for politics, art, and life.

• Oscar for best foreign-language film, 2003 2003: Best Foreign-Language Film

  Other Nominees

• discussed in biography Arcand, Denys

  ...Barbarian Invasions and starring many of the same actors. Arcand scored another international hit with Jésus de Montréal (1989; Jesus of Montreal). He later wrote and directed The Barbarian Invasions, which follows the final days of Rémy, a history professor, womanizer, and devout...

• barbarian invasions of Spain Spain

  ...win recognition for his people as foederati, or allies, of the empire, he was forced into Tarraconensis, where he was assassinated in 415. Under his successor, Wallia (415–418), the Romans acknowledged the Visigoths as allies and encouraged them to campaign against the other barbarian tribes in the peninsula. Those Alans and Siling Vandals who...