Alemanni

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The Alemanni or Alamanni were a confederation of Germanic peoples who first appeared in the region east of the Upper Rhine river during the third century AD, where they eventually took control of a large swathe of lands previously ruled by the Roman empire, within the province of Germania Superior. From about the fifth century, written records start occasionally referring to the Alemanni with an old name, Suebi, that had traditionally been used by Roman writers to refer to a diverse range of Germanic peoples found in several parts of Europe. This name came to be used to refer to their medieval and modern successors, the Swabians, whose country eventually came to be called Swabia (German: Schwaben). The connection between the Swabians and the ancient Suebi is however unclear and likely to have been indirect. The first apparent written mention of the Alemanni that has survived is in reports of the works of Cassius Dio. Surviving reports of his work mention them in the context of a campaign...

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