Ancient Germanic peoples Ancient Germanic peoples Adrabaecampi is the scholarly transliteration into Latin of Ptolemy's Adrabaikampoi, a tribe, he says, of greater Germany, dwelling on the north bank of the Danube south of the Gabreta Forest after the Marcomanni and Sudini. That is all history tells us. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adrabaecampi"
The Ampsivarii were a Germanic tribe mentioned by the Roman author Gaius Cornelius Tacticus, writing in the 1st century C.E. Their homeland was located in what is now northwestern Germany around the river Ems, which flows into the North Sea. Tacitus' name for them is a Latin rendering of the Germanic "Ems-werer", meaning "men of the Ems". ...more on Wikipedia about "Ampsivarii"
Angles (German: Angeln, Old English: Englas, Latin: singular Anglus, plural Anglii) were Germanic people, from Angeln in Schleswig, who settled in East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria in the 5th century. Southern and eastern Britain was later called Engla-lond (in Old English, "Land of the Angles"), thus England. For the rulers of the Angles prior to their migration to Britain, see List of kings of the Angles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angles"
Arheimar ("river home") was a capital of the Goths according to the Hervarar saga. The saga only states that it was located on the Dniepr. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arheimar"
The Armalausi were an obscure Germanic tribe, appearing between the Alamanni and the Marcomanni on the Tabula Peutingeriana (3rd or 4th century). They may have been a tribe of the Hermunduri. Philippus Brietius (1650) places them in the Upper Palatinate. They appear to have crossed the Danube and replaced the Varisci in the 2nd or 3rd century, and they probably merged with the Alamanni in the course of the 4th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Armalausi"
The Auiones (*Awioniz meaning "island people") were one of the Nerthus-worshipping Germanic tribes mentioned by Tacitus in Germania, and this tribe probably lived on Öland (Kendrick 1930:71). ...more on Wikipedia about "Auiones"
The Avarpi or Auarpoi or Avarni are a tribe of Greater Germany in Ptolemy's Geography. The attested Greek is Auarpoi. Avarpi is a scholarly transliteration into Latin, with some using Avarni on the assumption that the name refers to the Varni of Mecklenberg. However, Ptolemy uses Farodeinoi for Varini and clearly says that the Auarpoi are next to the Teutonikai and between the Sueboi and the Farodeinoi. This location is not precise, but is somewhere in the Pommern/Propommern region. If the Avarpi are not the Varini or Varuni, who are mentioned in the same breath, then they must be someone else. The problem is, who? ...more on Wikipedia about "Avarpi"
The Banochaemae, or Baenochaemae, or Bainochaimai, or Bonochamae were a people of Greater Germany in Ptolemy. According to him, they lived east of the Chamavi, near the Elbe river. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banochaemae"
Bastarnae were a Celtic tribe in the first millennium BC. When they appear in the historical sources, they were settled in Galicia and Bukovina. They appeared on the lower Danube about 200 BC, and were used by Philip V of Macedon against his Thracian neighbours. Defeated by the Thracians, the Bastarnae returned north, leaving some of their number settled on Peuce (hence called Peucini), an island in the Danube. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bastarnae"
The Batini or Bateinoi are a tribe of greater Germany in Ptolemy, located to the east of the Banochaemae, who were near the upper Elbe. That is all history knows for certain about them. Based on the similarity of names in the region, it has been proposed that they lived in Bautzen in Saxony. ...more on Wikipedia about "Batini"
The Bavarii were a large and powerful tribe which emerged late in Teutonic tribal times, in what is now the Czech Republic ( Bohemia). They replaced, or perhaps are simply another phase of, the previous inhabitants - the Rugians. They swiftly expanded their influence southward, and occupied Austria and the area which still bears their name: Bavaria. There is some argument as to the origins of the Bavarii. Until recently, modern day Bavarians were thought to be descendants of the Bavarii, who themselves were direct descendants of the (most probably) Celtic Boii, who settled in what is now Bavaria perhaps as much as two centuries before the birth of Christ. The Boii may in turn have also lent their name to Bohemia, an area that has at times been part of Bavaria proper. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bavarii"
The Brondings were a Germanic tribe or clan. They and the Bronding Breca are mentioned in Beowulf (Th. 1047; B. 521.), as Beowulf's childhood friend, and in Widsith (Scóp Th. 51; Wíd. 25.), where Breca is the lord of the Brondings. They were probably the people of the Swedish island of Brännö, west of Västergötland in the Kattegatt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brondings"
The Bructeri were a Germanic tribe located in northwestern Germany (Soester Boerde), between the Lippe and Ems rivers south of the Teutoburg Forest, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia around 100 BC through 350 AD. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bructeri"
The Burgundians or Burgundes were an East Germanic tribe which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr (the Island of the Burgundians), and from here to mainland Europe. In the Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar, Veseti settled in an island or holm, which was called Borgund's holm, i.e. Bornholm. Alfred the Great's translation of Orosius uses the name Burgenda land. The poet and early mythologist Viktor Rydberg ( 1828– 1895), (Our Fathers' Godsaga) asserted from an early medieval source, Vita Sigismundi, that the Burgundians themselves retained oral traditions about their Scandinavian origin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burgundians"
The Buri first appear in history as a Germanic tribe mentioned in the Germania of Tacitus, where they "close the back" of the Marcomanni and Quadi of Bohemia and Moravia. It is said that their speech and customs were like those of the Suebi. Such a statement implies that the Buri had recently come from Suebia, as the Germanics in Bohemia and Moravia were newcomers, having driven out the Celtic Boii and taken their lands. In Tacitus, the Buri are not linked to the Lugii. ...more on Wikipedia about "Buri (Germanic tribe)"
The Calucones were a Germanic tribe mentioned by a few of the classical sources, but not all. Pliny the Elder (Book 3 Chapter 24 of Naturalis Historia) quotes a monument to the reign of Augustus, the tropeaum Alpium, located in the Rhaetia of his day, stating that Augustus subdued the Alpine peoples from the upper sea to the lower sea, including the Calucones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calucones"
The Caritni, a Latinization, or the Karitnoi in the Greek of Ptolemy's Geography (2.10), were a people of Greater Germany of uncertain location, but generally in the region of west Bavaria. Little else is known about them. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caritni"
The Chaedini (Latinized form) or Chaideinoi or Khaideinoi (Greek forms) are a Germanic people that are listed only in the Geography of Ptolemy. He locates them in the west of a large island, Scandia, off the mouth of the Vistula river. Most scholars concur that Scandinavia is meant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaedini"
The name, Chaemae, is a Latinization of an ancient Germanic tribal name cited by Ptolemy in his Geography (2.10) as Chaimai, which also can be written in English, Khaimai. Ptolemy tells us next to nothing about them, only that they were next to the Bructeri. That little turns out to be a great deal. It is often suggested that the Chaemae and the Banochaemae are alternative names for the Chamavi, based on a common derivation. We know, however, that the Chamavi and their neighbors forcibly expelled the Bructeri from their original lands, which became Hamaland after the Chamavi moved in. The two peoples are not likely to have had neighborly feelings for each other now. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaemae"
The Chali, a Latinized form of the Khaloi or Chaloi of Ptolemy's Greek, were a people of Greater Germany (Geography 2.10) residing in Jutland. We hear no more about the Chali as such in history, but their name can probably be connected with the Chalusus river (ibid.), tentatively identified as the Trave. The modern name comes from the Slavic of the Slavs at the mouth of the river (mediaeval Trabena), as Charlemagne for a time encouraged them to settle in the region. The upper river must have remained in the lands of the Chali. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chali"
The Chamavi first appear under that name in the 1st century AD Germania of Tacitus as a Germanic tribe that, for most of their history, existed along the north bank of the lower Rhine in the region today called Hamaland after them. Hamaland is the land of the Hamavi. It is in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands. Tacitus (op. cit. 34) locates them to the west of the Frisians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chamavi"
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Charudes is the scholarly Latinization of an ethnic identity known in Ptolemy as the Charoudes. They are stated (Book 2, Chapter 10) to have lived on the east side of the Cimbric Chersonese, Ptolemy's term for Jutland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charudes"
The Chatti (also Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe settled in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of the Weser river and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder, Fulda and Werra river regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse- Cassel, though probably somewhat more extensive. According to Tacitus (Histories iv. under AD 70 ** ), among them were the Batavii, until an internal quarrel drove them out, to take up new lands at the mouth of the Rhine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chatti"
The Chauci were a populous Germanic tribe inhabiting the extreme northwestern shore of Germany during Roman times - basically the stretch of coast between Frisia in the west to the Elbe estuary in the east. By the end of the 3rd century CE, they had merged with the Saxons : whether this conjunction was amicable or forced is not clear. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chauci"
The Cherusci were a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Rhine valley and the plains and forests of northwestern Germany (between near modern Osnabrück and Hanover) during the 1st century BCE and 1st century CE. They were first allies and then enemies of Rome. They are most famous for the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, when an army of allied Germanic tribes (the Cherusci, Bructeri, Marsi (Germanic), and Chatti) under the Cheruscian war leader Arminius annihilated three Roman legions commanded by Publius Quinctilius Varus. This crushing Roman defeat stopped Rome's advance and compelled the empire, after a few more years of generally indecisive campaigning by Germanicus, to withdraw permanently behind the Rhine and Danube and the Limes fortification which was built as in consequence of the loss at Teutoburg Forest to link the two rivers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cherusci"
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