Turcilingi

thumb|right|Thomas Hodgkin (historian)|Thomas Hodgkin's map of barbarian peoples during the time of Augustulus, from his Italy and Her Invaders. The location of the Turcilingi is only a guess. The Turcilingi (also spelled Torcilingi or Thorcilingi) were an obscure barbarian people, or possibly a clan or dynasty, who appear in a small number of records relating to non-Roman soldiers serving within the empire under Odoacer in the 5th century AD. The 6th-century writer Jordanes indicated that Odoacer himself was considered a Turcilingian, although his descriptions of Odoacer's ethnic background are difficult to interpret.

Jordanes was the only near contemporary source to mention the Turcilingi. He made it clear that "Torcilingi" soldiers were present among the Roman auxiliaries serving under Odoacer in Italy, where they took part in his overthrow of the western emperor, Romulus Augustulus (reigned 475–76). Odoacer was described by Jordanes as a "king" of the Torcilingi, but also a ruler the Rugian, Heruli and Sciri soldiers. Under his leadership these forces also killed the father of the emperor, Orestes, and took control of Roman Italy. Although the homeland of the Turcilingi is never mentioned, the Sciri, Rugii and Heruli are all known to be among the several non-Roman peoples who had been living in the Middle Danubian region within the empire of Attila the Hun, and had established independent chiefdoms after his death in 453. Centuries after Jordanes, Paul the Deacon, who cited and used Jordanes as a source, explicitly listed the "Turcilingi" together with the Sciri, Rugii, and Heruli, among the peoples who had been among the Middle Danubian peoples who fought for Attila, before the time of Odoacer.