Alliances of Germanic tribes famously fought back against the Roman Empire as ... finding ancestry from the Germanic groups that spread south in people who lived in southern Germany, Italy, Poland, ...

Towards the end of the Roman empire, Brittania was under almost continual attack. During the fourth and fifth centuries the ...

Archaeologists believe the man likely belonged to the Alemanni, a Germanic tribe that lived near the Upper Rhine River. Germanic tribes, including the Alemanni, played a key role in the eventual ...

As in Scotland, it was to be an invading tribe that gave its name to that part of Brittania lost to the Germanic tribes - Angle Land, or England.