ALEMANNI

ălĭmănˈī, Germanic tribe, a splinter group of the Suebi (see Germans). The Alemanni may have been a confederation of smaller tribes. First mentioned (a.d. 213) as unsuccessfully assaulting the Romans between the Elbe and the Danube, they later settled (3d cent.) in upper Italy. By the 5th cent. they occupied territories on both sides of the Rhine south of its junction with the Main (present Alsace, Baden, and NE Switzerland). Their westward expansion brought them into conflict with the Franks, whose king Clovis I defeated them in 496. In 505 he forced them to retire into Rhaetia, and in 536 they passed under Frankish rule. By the 7th cent. they had accepted Christianity. Swabia is also known as Alamannia, and the High German dialects of SW Germany and Switzerland are called Alemannic. In French speech the name Allemands came to signify all Germans.

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books on: Alemanni  - 229 results

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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Book by J. J. Herzog, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson; Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1908
...Brussels, 1890- 1900 . A. HAUCK. ALEMANNI, a lemanni: An important Germanic tribe...were deprived of Christian nurture. The Alemanni, however, learned Christian views...Augsburg bishoptic was maintained; but the Alemanni in general continued heathen till they...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 1
Book by Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson; Funk and Wagnalls, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...Brussels, 1890- 1900 . A. HAUCK. ALEMANNI, le-m nni: An important Germanic...were deprived of Christian nurture. The Alemanni, however, learned Christian views...Augsburg bishopric was maintained; but the Alemanni in general continued heathen till they...
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Germany in Western Civilization
Book by William Harvey Maehl; University of Alabama, 1979
Subjects: Germany--History
...had interdicted Lower Germany to the Alemanni and had gained control of both sides...to the south, upon the lands of the Alemanni. The death of Aetius left Gaul without...Meanwhile, between 455 and 470 the Alemanni, foes of the Franks and Burgundians...
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Germany in the Later Middle Ages, 1200-1500
Book by William Stubbs, Arthur Hassall; Longmans, Green and Co., 1908
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, Germany--History--To 1517, Holy Roman Empire--History--To 1517
...Frederick Barbarossa that the use of the French name Alemanni is given by English writers to the whole congeries. The use of the word Alemanni and Alemannia by the French is easily explained: the Alemanni being the first non-Frank tribe of Germany...
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The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Vol. 1
Book by Wolfgang Menzel, George Horrocks; Bell & Daldy, 1871
Subjects: Germany--History
...opposed by the Thuringi, Burgundians, and Alemanni. "Holy Jupiter!" exclaimed the Roman...was before long again invaded by the Alemanni, who, during this irruption, destroyed...Wilderness, covered their sites. The Alemanni were in such force on the Upper Rhine...
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'Seldom Does Anyone Listen to a Good Exemplum': Courts and Kings in Torec and Die Riddere Metter Mouwen
Journal article by Siân Echard; Arthuriana, Vol. 17, 2007
Subjects: Classical studies, Comparative literature, Literary criticism, Middle Ages, Romance literature
...include his mistreatment at the hands of the Emperor of the Alemanni, who rewards Meriadocs service with treachery. Common to...their kings. Here, for example, is the false Emperor of the Alemanni, claiming for himself the glory of Meriadocs conquests: Nevertheless...


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Friends, Romans or Countrymen? Barbarians in the Empire
Magazine article by Stephen Williams, Gerard Friell; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
Subjects: Barbarian invasions of Rome--History, Germanic tribes--History, Rome (Ancient)--History, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. (Empire)
...Vandals, Sarmatians, Burgundians, Alemanni, Franks, Saxons -- who were a much...every major tribe: Saxons, Franks, Alemanni, Vandals, Goths, Quadi, Sugambri...and Burgundians in Britain, Franks and Alemanni in Gaul and Italy, Carpi in Pannonia...
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The City of Roads - Seven Thousand Years
Magazine article by Martin Gani; World and I, Vol. 18, January 2003
Subjects: Strasbourg, France--History
...confederacy of German tribes, known as Alemanni, located on the opposite side of the...was razed to the ground--not by the Alemanni but by Attila the Hun. After the Huns moved on, the Alemanni briefly took over Alsace until they were...
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From Bobbio to Bologna
Magazine article by Christopher Murphy; International Educator, Vol. 19, November 2010
Subjects: Higher education
...centuries, the monks reached out across the European continent, establishing learned monastic settlements among the Franks, the Alemanni (modern Switzerland), and perhaps most famously at Bobbio in the Lombard kingdom- not far from the city of Bologna where...
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Switzerland's Roman Past
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 44, August 1994
Subjects: Archaeological museums and collections--Switzerland, Classical antiquities--Galleries and museums, Lausanne, Switzerland--Galleries and museums
...continuous -- as proved by coin deposits of the emperor Honorius (395-423) -- until in the face of repeated attacks by the Alemanni from the north, the inhabitants moved in the fifth century to the higher ground which today constitutes the cite or centre...


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Alemanni
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALEMANNI aliman i, Germanic tribe, a splinter group of the Suebi (see Germans ). The Alemanni may have been a confederation of smaller tribes. First mentioned (a.d. 213) as unsuccessfully assaulting the Romans between the Elbe and the...
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Alemanni, Luigi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALEMANNI, LUIGI see Alamanni, Luigi . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Germans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Europe. German Tribes The chief German tribes included the Alemanni , the Angles (see Anglo-Saxons ), the Burgundii (see Burgundy...probably included a number of smaller tribes, of whom the Alemanni and the Marcomanni were two. Others were the Semoni, the...
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Franks
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and founded the Frankish empire. By the conquest of the First Kingdom of Burgundy , of Bavaria , of the territories of the Alemanni , the Thuringians, and the Saxons, and of the kingdom of the Lombards , the Frankish empire grew (6th 9th cent.) to include...
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ZÜrich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...settled by the Helvetii. It was conquered (58 b.c.) by the Romans, and after the 5th cent. passed successively to the Alemanni, the Franks, and to Swabia. It became a free imperial city after 1218, accepted a corporative constitution in 1336, and...
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