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This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The list of early Germanic peoples is a catalog of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilizations from antiquity. This information is derived from ...
The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere). It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language (s), as well as dependent territories with German as a co-official language.
A Germanic people who were possibly a remnant of the Langobards. [153] The name is from PGmc *χaþuz ("war") [154] and *barđaz ("beard"). [155] In Beowulf, Hróðgar's daughter Freawaru will marry their king Ingeld to bring peace between the tribes. At the wedding a young Dane will offend the Heaðobards by carrying one of their captured swords.
Ruth Westheimer (1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. William the Silent (1533–1584), German-born main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs [25] Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), art historian and archaeologist
West Germanic: including Old Saxon (attested from the 5th c. CE), Old English (late 5th c.), Old Frisian (6th c.), Frankish (6th c.), Old High German (6th c.), and possibly Langobardic (6th c.), which is only scarcely attested; [95] they are mainly characterized by the loss of the final consonant -z (attested from the late 3rd century), [96 ...
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; Ænglisc; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская ...
Germanic warriors are often depicted in Roman columns with full beards, but this practice probably varied from tribe to tribe and period to period. [107] Germanic women typically wore their hair long or plaited. Germanic women wore various types of hairpins and combs. It was considered disgraceful to wear the hair short. [107]
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...