Alemanni

Alemanni, also spelled Alamanni, orAlamani, a Germanic people first mentioned in connection with

the Roman attack on them in AD 213. In the following decades, their pressure on the Roman provinces

became severe; they occupied the Agri Decumates c.260, and late in the 5th century they expanded

into Alsace and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions. In 496 they

were conquered by Clovis and incorporated into his Frankish dominions.

The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained

a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi). Although several tribes put their

military forces under the joint command of two leaders for the duration of a campaign, the different

peoples generally found it difficult to combine, and they had nothing that could be called a central

government. The French and Spanish words for Germany (Allemagne; Alemania) are derived from their

name.

Visigoth

The Visigoths (UK: /ˈvɪzɪˌɡɒθs/; US: /ˈvɪzɪˌɡɑːθs/, Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi,

Wesi, or Wisi) were branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to

collectively as the Goths. These tribes flourished and spread during the late Roman

Empire in Late Antiquity, or the Migration Period. The Visigoths emerged from earlier

Gothic groups (possibly the Thervingi)[3] who had invaded the Roman Empire beginning

in 376 and had defeated the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The Visigoths

invaded Italy under Alaric Iand sacked Rome in 410. Their long history of migration led

the Visigoths to compare themselves to the Biblical Hebrew people who purportedly

wandered for forty years in the Sinai Desert. After the Visigoths sacked Rome, they

began settling down, first in southern Gauland eventually in Spain and Portugal, where

they founded the Kingdom of the Visigoths.

Angles

The Angles (Latin Anglii) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled

in Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several of the kingdoms of Anglo-

Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England. The name comes from

the district of Angeln, an area located on the Baltic shore of what is now Schleswig-

Holstein, the most northernstate of Germany.

Lombards

Burgundii

Saxons