The name of the period refers to the movement of so-called barbarian peoples —including the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Bulgars, Alani, Suebi, and Franks —into what had been the Western Roman Empire. The term “Dark Ages” is now rarely used by historians because of the value judgment it implies. More @Wikipedia
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