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Alamannia, or Alemannia, was the kingdom established and inhabited by the Alemanni, a Germanic tribal confederation that had broken through the Roman limes in 213. 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.
The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni are an alliance of war bands which forms up between various smaller Germanic tribes which have been migrating southwards from the Baltic Sea. By the start of the third century they are to be found in what is now central Germany, having emerged there from around the Elbe.
Alamannia, or Alemannia, was the kingdom established and inhabited by the Alemanni, a Germanic tribal confederation that had broken through the Roman limes in 213.
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...
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- 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...
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The Alemanni (also Alamanni; [1] Suebi "Swabians" [2]) were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the upper Rhine river. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Caracalla of 213, the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, leading to the ...
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.
Alamannia or Alemannia was the territory inhabited by the Alamanni after they broke through the Roman limes in 213. The term Swabia was often used interchangeably with Alamannia in the 10th to 13th centuries and is still so used when speaking of those centuries.
