Romans called all non-Romans Barbarians. Barbarian comes from a Greek term meaning to bark like a dog. They believed that the languages of non-Greeks, and, later, non-Romans sounded like the dogs barking.
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Germanic tribes are the people who invaded the Western Roman Empire.
While the germanic tribes were invading, a germanic leader Odoacer, a former Roman army recriut, finally conquered Rome in 476 A.D.
The city of Rome itself was never invaded. Rome was sacked four times during antiquity (by the Gauls, Visigoths, Vandals and Ostrogoths but it was never actually invaded or conquered. The peoples who sacked it left before Roman legions gathered from elsewhere in the empire caught up with them. It was the western part of the Roman Empire which was invaded. It was invaded by much more than two peoples. It was invaded by the Vandals, Alans, Sueves, Burgundians, Alemanni and Franks. Britannia was invaded by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. All of these peoples, except for the Alans who were Iranian speakers, were Germanic peoples.
The tribes of peoples that invaded Roman territory and helped bring about the fall of the western part of the empire were the Goths (Ostrogoth's and Visigoths) and the Vandals.
The barbarian tribes invaded Italy and took Rome. This happened in 410 AD and that set the stage for the start of the middle ages.
Although the Roman Empire had been declining for the past two centuries, the last nail was put in the coffin when Germanic tribes from northern Europe invaded Rome in 476 CE.
They lived as tribal groups in the area we call Germany and paid tribute to Rome. Often men would go into the Roman army for service.
The Germanic tribes
Angles, Jutes, and Saxons ( invaded Roman-held Great Britain) Vandals (conquered the area of Spain) Visigoths (invaded the Italian peninsula and sacked Rome) Franks ( conquered most of the area of France)