Philippide, Originea românilor (" Origin of the Romanians "), I, Iaşi, 1925: „ Armata, dacă a înţeles rău cuvântul torna, ca şi cum ar fi fost vorba că trebuie să se întoarcă cineva să fugă, l-a înţeles ca un cuvânt din limba ţării, din limba locului, căci doar Theophylactos spune lămurit că « toţi strigau cât îi ţinea gura şi se îndemnau unul pe altul să se întoarcă, răcnind cu mare tulburare în limba ţării: retorna »” (" The army, if it understood badly the word torna, which also could have been the word that turned back someone who ran away, understood it as a word of the language of the country, of the language of the place, because only Theophylactos says clearly that ' everyone shouted it from mouth to mouth the gave one another the impetus to turn around, yelling with great concern in the language of the country: turn back < nowiki >'</ nowiki >")</ ref > as by the year 600, the bulk of the Byzantine army was raised from barbarian mercenaries and the Romanic population of the Balkan Peninsula.

Poul Anderson's novel The Dancer from Atlantis covers the same period, but from a clearly pro-Cretan point of view-Theseus being the book's villain, a barbarian pirate and cruel destroyer of Cretan civilization.

The barbarian troops laid waste to the provinces they had temporarily occupied, as described by Sima Guang:

Banks himself has described the actions of some of the Minds in the novel as akin to " barbarian kings presented with the promise of gold in the hills ".

The poet Sidonius Apollinaris arrived in Rome on the occasion of the wedding at the end of 467, and described the celebrations in which all social classes were involved ; he also hints that Alypia might have not liked her husband, a barbarian.

Also, in the book, the female Dragonriders are described as being topless, as barbarian women in fiction tend to be.

The Triballi were often described as a wild and warlike people ( Isocrates ), and in Aristophanes, a Triballian is introduced as a specimen of an uncivilized barbarian.

Thakkur " the darkest period in Sind history ", with the records speaking of massive forced conversions, temple destruction, slaughters and genocides ; the people of Sindh, described as inherently pacifist due to their Hindu / Buddhist religious inclinations, had to adjust to the conditions of " barbarian inroad ".

Also described is an incident involving a yochlol during a drow attack on Mithral Hall ; the barbarian Wulfgar is lost to the yochlol as a result of the attack.

By the time of Indbur III, the grandson of the original Indbur and a man described as a bookkeeper in the wrong profession, the government had become an aristocracy reminiscent of the barbarian kingdoms the Foundation so often came in conflict with.

The Hyborian culture of the time was described by Howard as dynamic and its civilizing influence was felt by most of their barbarian neighbors.

" However, despite the conventional translation of such terms ( especially 夷 ) as " barbarian ", in fact it is more accurate to translate them simply as ' outsider ' or ' stranger ', with far less offensive cultural connotations.

Viking and other barbarian attacks further led rich Romans to build up their latifundia, or large estates, in a way that would protect their families and create a self-sufficient living place.

Under its strong integrating dynamics on the one hand and the impacts of change it transmitted on the other, tribal societies previously living in isolation along the Silk Road or pastoralists who were of barbarian cultural development were drawn to the riches and opportunities of the civilizations connected by the Silk Road, taking on the trades of marauders or mercenaries.

International trade was also expanded beyond China and the Korean peninsula, while nanban ( southern barbarian ) trade with Europe, the Philippines, Siam, and Indonesia was also started.

This period was marked by profound changes both within the Roman Empire and beyond its " barbarian frontier ".

In Wu Xing " Five Phases " theory, the five directions ( center and four cardinal directions ) were sinocentrically correlated: China ( called Zhongguo " middle kingdom ") was in the center, bordered by the siyi " four barbarian tribes ", beyond which were the sihai " four seas.

Barbarians north of Hadrian's Wall were beyond the reach of the law altogether, so the barbarian lands were effectively a full PvP environment.

" Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage translates Yi as " Anc barbarian tribe on east border, any border or foreign tribe.

King Cheng later stabilized Zhou Dynasty's border by defeating several barbarian tribes along with Duke of Zhou.

The Danube was for a long time the border between the Romans, later Byzantines and the " barbarian " migrating tribes in the north, making Isaccea a border town, conquered and held by dozens of different peoples.

He also reveals the motivation for Calormene attempts to invade Archenland and, ultimately, Narnia, as a refusal to abide the thought of free countries so close to the border of the Calormene empire, as illustrated by this speech given to the Tisroc: " These little barbarian countries that call themselves free ( which is as much to say, idle, disordered, and unprofitable ) are hateful to the gods and to all persons of discernment ".

This may have been due to heavier barbarian pressure, and / or to the practice of keeping large armies of the best troops in the interior, depriving the border forces of sufficient support.

Significantly, during feudal era, and after barbarian attacks and subsequent invasions, the emerging poor socio-economic picture of India prompted other tribes and castes too to indulge into the fields and profession of Brahma Bhatts, eventually picking up as and introducing themselves as Bhatt / Brahmbhatt, which would result into literature and poetry of superficial and excessive nature.

Shu-Durul ( 2168 – 2154 BC ) appears to have restored some order, however he was unable to prevent the empire eventually collapsing outright from the invasion of barbarian peoples from the Zagros Mountains known as the Gutians.

Taking advantage of Roman military disarray, a vast number of barbarian peoples overran much of the empire.

These emperors followed a policy of large-scale resettlement within the empire of defeated barbarian tribes, granting them land in return for an obligation of military service much heavier than the usual conscription quota.

But it could also be popular with the barbarian prisoners, who were often delighted by the prospect of a land grant within the empire.

Diocletian saw his work as that of a restorer, a figure of authority whose duty it was to return the empire to peace, to recreate stability and justice where barbarian hordes had destroyed it.

Besides the barbarian threat from the north, internal divisions within the empire, especially within the Christian Church, caused troubles.

* The battles of the tribal over-king Caylen-Tor-A barbarian warrior who forges a tenuous alliance of the tribes of his northern homeland, Caylen-Tor must lead his clansmen into battle against the overwhelming forces of the eastern Mytos K ' unn empire.

After the Christianization of the empire it could also be used of pagan or barbarian cultures.

Map showing the Roman empire in AD 125 and contemporary barbarian Europe, showing two possible locations of the Sitones.

The first two-thirds of the Edict doubled the value of the copper and bronze coins, and set the death penalty for profiteers and speculators, who were blamed for the inflation and who were compared to the barbarian tribes attacking the empire.

Map of the Roman empire and barbarian Europe in AD 125.

Many theories of causality have been explored and most concern the disintegration of political, economic, military, and other social institutions, in tandem with barbarian invasions and usurpers from within the empire.

It should, however, be noted that Constantine initiated a successful reform of the currency which was completed before the barbarian invasions of the 4th century, and that thereafter the currency remained sound everywhere that remained within the empire until at least the 11th century-at any rate for gold coins.

The internal power structure was slowly deteriorating, and exploded in the crisis of the Third Century, when economic problems, barbarian incursions and civil wars led to a fragmentation of the empire as the regions tried to respond effectively to Persians and ' barbarian ' invasions.

The Byzantines used the term generically to refer to the rulers of barbarian tribes or realms outside the boundaries of their empire.

His remit covered the southern and eastern coasts of Roman Britain during a period of increasing maritime raids from barbarian tribes outside the empire.

The losses at the Battle of the Frigidus weakened the western legions, whose task in defending the empire from the barbarian invaders was much harder than the eastern ones.

Howard compares him to Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Osman I, a barbarian with all the instincts of an empire builder.

Though Colin is ostensibly in the role of the " barbarian " and Marcus is the bringer of " civilization ", Marcus cares more about building an empire and less about people's well-being, with an " ends-justify-the-means " mentality.