| ROMANS |1st century|106 A.D. to|before the| ? |Roman descendants | | |B.C. |274 A.D. |Goths | |fused with | | | | |about 274 | |succeeding tribes,| | | | |A.D. | |and their descen- | | | | | | |dants survive in | | | | | | |Roumania to-day. | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | | | | | |About 376 A.D. | | | | | | |they crossed the | | | | | | |Danube, driven | |GOTHS-- | | | | |before the Huns, | |Ostrogoths, | 250 A.D. |274 to 375 |Huns, 375 | 378 A.D.|and were allowed | |Visigoths, | |A.D. |A.D. | |to settle with | |_Gepidæ_ | | | | |other tribes in | | | | | | |Mœsia. Sometimes | | | | | | |the Goths and Huns| | | | | | |were allied. | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ |Sarmatians, | | | | |The Sarmatians | |Quadi, | | | | |fought against the| |Marcomanni | | | | |Romans at various | |invaded Dacia | |282 to 375 |Romans, | |periods, but were | |at various | |A.D. |375 A.D. | |conquered by | |times; | | | | |Valentinian, 375 | |_Sarmatians_ | | | | |A.D. | |settled. | | | | | | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | | | | | |The Huns were | | | | | | |driven eastward, | | | | | | |but returned a few| |HUNS (and |370 to 375 |375 A.D. to|Gepidæ, | 460 A.D.|years afterwards, | |Alani) |A.D. |about 453 |453 A.D. | |overran Italy, and| | | | | | |are mentioned as | | | | | | |being in Dacia | | | | | | |about 564 A.D. | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | |See above |453 to |Lombards | | |