Believed to have originated in Scandinavia, the Vandals were an East Germanic tribe, first mentioned in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder (77 CE), then by Tacitus in his Germania (98 CE). The origin of their name is still covered in mystery, and we cannot even tell for sure if Vandals was actually their …
A question comes naturally: who led the early Germanic communities?Did they have a king or a ruler similar to the Roman model?Well, it seems that no central authority was present, at least at the time when Caesar writes: while in peace, a local figure would sometimes interfere with the disputes within the village - or …
Tacitus also distinguished the individual tribes and their territories: the Chatti lived in modern Hesse, the Frisii inhabited the coastland between the Rhine and the Ems, while the mouth of the Weser was home of the Chauci and Cherusci (Arminius’ tribe). The Suebi occupied the territories of Thuringia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg, with Semnones and …
Obscure and soaked in mystery, the origins of the Germanic people who thrived in Northern Europe go back thousands of years.We know, from some historical reports and archaeological discoveries, that during the Bronze Age (3000 - 1200 BCE, ca) they inhabited the territories of modern south Sweden and Norway, Denmark, and North Germany; some of …
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