This book focuses on the decisive upheavals of the years after 375 A.D. in the Pannonian provinces, which were located between eastern Alps, the middle Danube, and the Adriatic Sea. It covers the Roman administration, the conquest by the Gothic Divisions, the development of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths as well as the appearance and eclipse of several peoples up to the late sixth century A.D. The treatment points out causal aspects that heralded the fall of the (western) Roman Empire.

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Friedrich Lotter ist emeritierter Professor für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte in Göttingen.