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Alemanni. Area settled by the Alemanni, and sites of Roman–Alemannic battles, third to sixth centuries. The Alemanni or Alamanni [1] [2] were a confederation of Germanic tribes [3] on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Roman emperor Caracalla of 213, the Alemanni ...
The Romans assimilated the phrase "alle männer" into Latin as Alemanni (the -i suffix indicates plural) and called the land where the Alemanni lived "Alemannia" (-ia is a common placename suffix, as with many other lands like "Francia", land of the Franks, "Graecia", land of the Greeks, etc.).
- The name comes from the Alemanni , a Germanic tribe. Germany is known by a variety of names throughout the world, you can find a comprehensive lis...
- There is a Wikipedia article on the topic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany Because of Germany's geographic position in the centre o...
- To add to @Yannis Rizos's post, what has come down to us as the Germanic tribal name Alemanni is actually the Latin name for what that tribe call...
- In Portugal it is called "Alemanha", not "Alman". It is that way because of the tribe living in that region of Europe, "Álamos" Source: I'm Portugu...
- I am from Iran. In Persian language, many words related to Europe are obtained from French language. In Iran we call Germany Alman just because thi...
- I believe the words ,arya ,alman, German, Latino, Hellenic, Greek ,alban, Albany, alwa,Alan,Slav,hari, hali certainly have a same origin and a same...
The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.[citation needed]Alemannia lost its distinct jurisdictional identity when Charles Martel absorbed it into ...
843. • Under Holy Roman Empire. 10th century. Preceded by. Succeeded by. Germania. Duchy of Swabia. Alemannia, also spelt Alamannia was the land inhabited by the Germanic Alemanni, who expanded from the Main River basin during the 3rd century and settling on the left side of the Rhine River in the 4th century. [1]
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In general, the names for Germany can be arranged in six main groups according to their origin: 1. From Old High German diutisc or similar [a] Afrikaans: Duitsland. Chinese: 德意志 ( pinyin: Déyìzhì ), commonly 德國 ( trad.) or 德国 ( simp.) ( Déguó; "Dé" from 德意志, and "guó" means "country") Danish: Tyskland. Dutch: Duitsland.
Swabia’s name is derived from that of the Suebi, a Germanic people who, with the Alemanni, occupied the upper Rhine and upper Danube region in the 3rd century ad and spread south to Lake Constance and east to the Lech River. Known first as Alemannia, the region was called Swabia from the 11th century.
Kingdom of Alamannia. The Alemanni expanded from the Main River basin during the 3rd century and raided Roman provinces and settled on the left bank of the Rhine River from the 4th century. Ruled by independent tribal kings during the 4th and the 5th centuries, Alamannia lost its independence in the late 5th century and became a duchy of the ...
