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| The history of the Germanic people is found at the confluence of elements of the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity and the religion of Christianity. And yet those who actually lived this history, the Germanic people, were never identified! There was never a people that gave this name to itself. Instead, there were many Germanic nations and tribes which split up and merged over the course of the centuries and which waged war on one another and merged into larger tribes. But there was never a closed group of people called the Germans! Therefore, the history of the Germanic people is a history of the evolution of individual tribes, each playing a different role. Germanic migrations began with those of the Kimber and the Teutons, which were turned back by the Romans in the year 101 BC. These migrations ended when the drives of the Scandinavian Vikings faded away in the middle of the 11th Century. One finds the history of the Germanic people in the intervening 1200 years. |
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