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Map of the Roman Empire and barbarian tribes in 125 AD. Iron Age (pre-Great Migrations) populations of Europe known from Greco-Roman historiography, notably Herodotus, Pliny, Ptolemy and Tacitus: Aegean: the Greek tribes, Pelasgians, and Anatolians. Balkans: the Illyrians (List of ancient tribes in Illyria), Dacians, and Thracians.
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 ...
Seasonal migration over short distance is known as transhumance (as e.g. in the Alps or Vlachs in the Balkans) and is not normally considered "nomadism". [ citation needed ] Sometimes also described as "nomadic" (in the figurative or extended sense) is the itinerant lifestyle of various groups subsisting on craft, trade or seasonal labour ...
The body of myths among the North Germanic-speaking peoples is known today as Norse mythology and is attested in numerous works, the most expansive of which are the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. While these texts were composed in the 13th century, they frequently quote genres of traditional alliterative verse known today as eddic poetry and ...
[32] (the name of these tribes is known today by archaeology discovery of their names in old stellae and not by mention of any known or survived works of Classical Antiquity authors) Aelarici / Aelariques; Aeturici / Aeturiques; Arquioci - in Iplacea, Roman named Complutum (today's Alcalá de Henares) region. Acualici / Acualiques; Bocourici ...
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
Category: Tribes of Europe. ... Ancient tribes of the British Isles (2 C) C. Circassian tribes (3 C, 10 P) G. German tribes (3 C, 7 P) Ancient tribes in Greece (7 C ...
The western Iranians, the Alans and Sarmatians, settled down and became the ruling elite of several eastern Slavic tribes [9] and some of these Iranians also assimilated into the Slavic cultures, [10] while others retained their Iranian identity, and their languages are spoken today by the modern Ossetian people. [11]