This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

episode 55

The Migration period of Europe. So, Let's start our journey this week by looking at the map of Europe in the year 300

and summarising what was going on.

We know that by this time those Celtic peoples who had not had their lands annexed by the Roman Empire

were pushed into the far north of Britannia and the island of Hibernia, which we know today as Ireland.

Our special episode on the Picts covers this period of history in the

we also spoke more widely of the Celts particularly before this period during episode 53 on the continent the Roman Empire had reached roughly the area of the Rhine and the Danube.

So there was a line drawn across Europe from the northwest to the southeast, from the north sea to the Black Sea.

To the south of the line it was Roman territory.

To the north we find that most of the peoples were of Germanic origin.

Goths had migrated southwards from the Baltic lands to the lands of the modern

countries of Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.

The Markamani, who lent their name to the second century conflicts between the Romans and the

Germans, were still present around the lands of the modern

Czech and Slovak republics.

Franks were occupying lands of the modern Netherlands.

There were very many other known and distinct Germanic tribes, a great many we have mentioned in previous episodes.

Over the course of the next 100 years, there were three significant political events worth talking

about in relation to today's episode. Firstly there was a significant shift in

a relationship between the eastern and western halves of the Roman

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