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description of the Tribes in the Rhine area. I dont know where to begin attacking that statement!! The Batavi were very Germanic and not Celtic. Archaeological...

hob-nob with upper-class Romans? There was no Roman humiliation by the Batavi. The Germanic legions thought the empire was gone so they swore allegiance to Triers...

Normans." ibid., p. 222: "The Dutch are a western Germanic people, the descendents of the ancient Batavi, Frisians, Franks, and Saxons. United by their opposition...

iron is likely a pre-proto-Germanic loan. Your Batavi might very well have spoken some Italo-Celtic or "Italo-Celto-Germanic" dialect that did not leave...

March 2010 (UTC) What is the specific evidence showing this tribe was one of the Germanic Germani, as opposed to the Celtic Germani? 74.96.53.210 (talk)...

to mention Germanic tribes on the west bank of the Rhine in the period of the early Empire, such as the Tungri, Nemetes, Ubii, and the Batavi. Given that...

Gemina) after the Batavi revolt ended in 70 AD. The name is of Celtic origin, meaning "new market", suggesting that the Germanic Batavi either displaced...

section. The latter is more accurate; that is, Batavia comes from Batavi, a Germanic tribe. The name, Betuwe, derives from Batavia, not the other way around...

countries" once consisted of tribes and communities, all thought to descended from the Low Germans (i.e. Angles, Batavi, Danes, Franconians, Frisians...

Gelderland, south of the Veluwe) there used to live Batavi; but they were probably overrun by Frankish tribes from the Ijssel area in the 3rd century, who may...

to merge discussion of Roman era tribes all into one section, whereas you seem to want all tribes apart from the Batavi treated as "pre Roman" in a separate...

the Alans were streaming toward the borders, being absorbed by the Germanic tribes. The Visigoths under Athanaric had been utterly defeated at the Dniester...

refers to citizens of Germany, and in effect all germanic people descent from the proto-germanic tribes from Scandinavia. Germans don't call themselves...

heard of it. France often won in Africa against established kingdoms, not tribes. For someone edging me on to read some history, you might try following...