Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Wars were frequent between and within the individual Germanic peoples. [2] The early Germanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did not necessarily clearly differentiate between warfare and other forms of violent interaction. [3] The Romans note that for the Germans, robbery in warfare was not shameful.
113–101 BC, Germanic Collision with the Roman Republic, Cimbrian War, Beginning of Germanic Wars. 112 BC, Battle of Noreia, [1] Suicide of Consul Gnaeus Papirius Carbo. 107 BC, Helvetii defeat the Romans in the Battle of Agen, [2] Consul Lucius Cassius Longinus dies in battle, [2] General Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus dies in battle. [2]
Pages in category "Battles involving early Germanic peoples" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The area occupied by the Germanic peoples during the Iron Age (c. 500 B.C.-60 B.C.E.). In red, their original homeland, where they crystallized as a people (southern Scandinavia and Jutland), corresponding to that of the Scandinavian Bronze Age; in magenta, the regions affected early by their expansion and where the Jastorf culture developed
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
The Harii (West Germanic "warriors") [1] were, according to a single brief remark by the 1st century CE Roman historian Tacitus, a Germanic people; the most powerful of the Lugian group of states (), who in turn dominated a large part of the Suebian part of Germania in an area north of the Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains, in the region of present day Poland and eastern Germany.
Early Germanic peoples believed that heroic death in battle would enable a warrior admittance to Valhalla, a majestic hall presided over by Odin, chief of the Germanic pantheon. [52] In times of distress, a Germanic tribe would on occasion embark on a wholesale mass-migration, in which the entire able-bodied population became engaged in war.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more