Ostrogoths
The Ostrogoths, like the Visigoths, were originally Indo-European. We first hear of them when they are living in Poland around 100 BC. Soon after that, some of them, along with their relatives the Visigoths, seem to have decided to migrate to the south, very gradually and slowly. Probably bad weather at home made it impossible to feed everyone, and so some people left looking for food. They slowly moved south through Slovakia, and settled along the north side of the Black Sea, to the east of the Visigoths.
The Ostrogoths took up farming and trading with the Romans and the Parthians, and lived there more or less peacefully for several hundred years, until in the 300s AD they began to be pushed southward and westward by new invaders, the Huns.
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