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The Teutons (Latin: Teutones, Teutoni; Ancient Greek: Τεύτονες) were an ancient northern European tribe mentioned by Roman authors. The Teutons are best known for their participation, together with the Cimbri and other groups, in the Cimbrian War with the Roman Republic in the late second century BC.
Teutons, a Germanic tribe or Celtic tribe mentioned by Greek and Roman authors Furor Teutonicus, a Latin phrase referring to the proverbial ferocity of the Teutons; Having qualities related to classical Germanic peoples (dated) regnum Teutonicorum, "Kingdom of the Germans" rex Teutonicorum, "King of the Germans"
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to establish hospitals.
The origin of the name Cimbri is unknown. One etymology [1] is Proto-Indo-European: *tḱim-ro-, lit. 'inhabitant', from *tḱoi-m-"home" (English home), itself a derivation from *tḱei-"live" (Ancient Greek: κτίζω, Latin: sinō); then, the Germanic *himbra-finds an exact cognate in Slavic sębrъ "farmer" (Croatian, Serbian sebar, Belorussian сябёр syabyor).
The U.S. Constitution prevents Donald Trump from running for a third term, but that hasn’t stopped him from toying with the idea.. Trump raised the topic at a Black History Month event Thursday. ...
The modern definition of Germanic peoples developed in the 19th century, when the term Germanic was linked to the newly identified Germanic language family. Linguistics provided a new way of defining the Germanic peoples, which came to be used in historiography and archaeology.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck‘s daughter Violet reportedly cut ties with her father’s ex-wife Jennifer Lopez. Feeling like she was used as a “pawn” during Affleck and Lopez’s divorce ...