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Modernized name Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Hald (North and South) Old English: Hæleþan: The Hæleþan were a people mentioned in Widsith, line 81. The name Halla herred is attested in the Doomesday book of Valdemar II of Denmark for an area at the Randers Fjord in north Jutland.
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Medieval Frisians (2 C, 4 P) K. Khazars (8 C, 28 P) M. Muwallads (3 C, 10 P) S. Ancient Slavic peoples (3 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Medieval ethnic groups of Europe"
Name Life Years active Allegiance (Organization) Comments Alexon: 250 BC Carthaginian Empire: Greek mercenary from Achaea who served in the Carthaginian garrison at Lilybaeum while it was besieged by the Romans during the First Punic War. Foiled a plot by Gallic mercenaries to surrender Lilybaeum to the enemy. Autaritus: d. 238 BC Carthaginian ...
The primary unit of social organisation in Germanic and Celtic Europe of the early Middle Ages was the kin group and this was probably the case in early Medieval Scotland. [1] The mention of descent through the female line in the ruling families of the Picts in later sources and the recurrence of leaders clearly from outside of Pictish society ...
French troops being attacked by the Tard-Venus free company during the 1362 Battle of Brignais.. A free company (sometimes called a great company or, in French, grande compagnie) was an army of mercenaries between the 12th and 14th centuries recruited by private employers during wars.
Tomaschek compared this name with the name Cotela of a Getian prince and with the name Cotys, name of several Odrysian and Sapaean (Thracian) princes. Also, he compared with the name Kotys, the Thracian goddess worshipped by the Edonians, a tribe that lived around Pangaion Mountain. He sees here again, the letter "o" as an obscured indistinct ...