Before revision: The medieval German Ostsiedlung (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern, Central and Eastern Europe, previously inhabited since the Great Migrations by Balts, Romanians, Hungarians and, since about the 6th century, the Slavs.Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians: Migration, development and the birth of Europe (2009), pp.
After revision: The medieval German (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern, Central and Eastern Europe, previously inhabited since the Great Migrations by Balts, Romanians, Hungarians and, since about the 6th century, the Slavs.Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians: Migration, development and the birth of Europe (2009), pp.