Editing Migration Period (section)

=== Germanic tribes prior to migration ===
{{further|Proto-Germanic language|Pre-Roman Iron Age (Northern Europe)|Marcomannic Wars}}

[[Germanic peoples]] moved out of southern [[Scandinavia]] and northern Germany<ref>{{cite web |title=Anatolien war nicht Ur-Heimat der indogermanischen Stämme |url=http://www.eurasischesmagazin.de/artikel/Anatolien-war-nicht-Ur-Heimat-der-indogermanischen-Staemme/20040313 |access-date=2016-02-03 |publisher=Eurasischesmagazin.de}}</ref><ref>Wolfram Euler, Konrad Badenheuer; "Sprache und Herkunft der Germanen: Abriss des Protogermanischen vor der Ersten Lautverschiebung"; 2009; {{ISBN|3-9812110-1-4|978-3-9812110-1-6}}</ref> to the adjacent lands between the [[Elbe]] and [[Oder]] after 1000&nbsp;BC. The first wave moved westward and southward (pushing the resident [[Celts]] west to the [[Rhine]] around 200&nbsp;BC), moving into [[southern Germany]] up to the Roman provinces of [[Gaul]] and [[Cisalpine Gaul]] by 100&nbsp;BC, where they were stopped by [[Gaius Marius]] and later by [[Julius Caesar]]. It is this western group which was described by the Roman historian [[Tacitus]] (AD&nbsp;56–117) and Julius Caesar (100–44&nbsp;BC). A later wave of Germanic tribes migrated eastward and southward from Scandinavia, between 600 and 300&nbsp;BC, to the opposite coast of the [[Baltic Sea]], moving up the [[Vistula]] near the [[Carpathian Mountains]]. During [[Tacitus]]' era they included lesser-known tribes such as the [[Tencteri]], [[Cherusci]], [[Hermunduri]] and [[Chatti]]; however, a period of federation and intermarriage resulted in the familiar groups known as the [[Alemanni]], [[Franks]], [[Saxons]], [[Frisians]] and [[Thuringii|Thuringians]].<ref>Bury, Invasion, Ch. 1.</ref>