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This article is about the tribe of the Teutons. The term "Teutons" is also used to refer to the Germanic peoples summarily, not to be confused with the Teutonic Knights.


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The migrations of the Teutons and the Cimbri
The Teutons or Teutones (from Proto-Germanic *Şeudanōz) were mentioned as a Germanic tribe in early historical writings by Greek and Roman authors such as Strabo and Velleius. According to Ptolemy's map, they lived on Jutland, whereas Pomponius Mela placed them in Scandinavia (Codanonia)[1]. In any case, they are believed to have given their name to the region of Thy (Old Norse Thiuthæ sysæl) in northern Denmark.

Earlier than 100 BC, many of the Teutones, as well as the Cimbri, migrated south and west to the Danube valley, where they encountered the expanding Roman Republic. During the late 2nd century BC, the Teutons are recorded as marching west through Gaul along with their neighbors, the Cimbri, and attacking Roman Italy. After several victories for the invading armies, the Cimbri and Teutones were then defeated by Marius in 102 BC at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae (near present-day Aix-en-Provence). Their King, Teutobod, was taken in irons.

The captured women committed mass suicide, which passed into Roman legends of Germanic heroism (cf Jerome, letter cxxiii.8, 409 AD [2]):
"By the conditions of the surrender three hundred of their married women were to be handed over to the Romans. When the Teuton matrons heard of this stipulation they first begged the consul that they might be set apart to minister in the temples of Ceres and Venus; and then when they failed to obtain their request and were removed by the lictors, they slew their little children and next morning were all found dead in each other's arms having strangled themselves in the night."


The terms Teuton and Teutonic have sometimes been used in reference to all of the Germanic peoples. The name Teutones is a proto – Germanic (teudanoz) or Celtic (tuath) or Latvian (tauta) and even South Italian Oscan (touto) word meaning people or race or town. The king of the Teutones in 101 BC was Teutobod, “bod” (badb in Irish) being Celtic for raven (Rankin, 1987) – suggesting a Celtic origin of these people.

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  • Fick, August, Torp, Alf, Falk, Hjalmar: Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen. Teil 3, Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit. 4. Aufl. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1909.
Germanic peoples are a historical group of Indo-European-speaking peoples, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
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Teutonic Knights or Teutonic Order (Latin: Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Ierosolimitanorum, "Order of the German House of St. Mary in Jerusalem", German: Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus St.
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Writing system: Elder Futhark
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Proto-Germanic (or Common Germanic
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Motto
Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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Strabo[1] (Greek: Στράβων; 63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. He is mostly famous for his 17-volume work Geographica
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Marcus Velleius Paterculus (ca. 19 BC - ca. AD 31) was a Roman historian, also known simply as Velleius. Although his praenomen is given as Marcus by Priscian, some modern scholars identify him with Gaius Velleius Paterculus
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; after 83 – 161 AD), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek[1] or Egyptian
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Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer.

His little work (De situ orbis libri III.) is a mere compendium, occupying less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and
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Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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The Cimbri were a germanic tribe who together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC. The ancient sources located their home of origin in the northern Jutland.
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Danube
Donau, Dunaj, Duna, Dunav, Dunărea
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The Cimbri were a germanic tribe who together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC. The ancient sources located their home of origin in the northern Jutland.
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Anthem
Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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2nd century BC - 1st century BC
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Battle of Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence) took place in 102 BC. After a string of Roman defeats (see Battle of Arausio), the Romans under Gaius Marius finally defeated the Teutones and Ambrones.
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Aix-en-Provence

The coat of arms of Aix-en-Provence
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Teutobod (or Theudobod) was King of the Teutons. In the late 2nd century BCE, together with their neighbors, allies and possible relatives, the Germanic Cimbri, the Teutons migrated from their original homes in southern Scandinavia and on the Jutland peninsula of Denmark,
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Jerome (ca. 347 – September 30, 420; Greek: Ευσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ιερώνυμος
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Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. Her name derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "ker", meaning "to grow", which is also the root for the words "create" and "increase".
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Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love and beauty and fertility, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. She was the consort of Vulcan. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people by way of its legendary founder, Aeneas, and played a key
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The lictor, derived from the Latin ligare (to bind), was a member of a special class of Roman civil servant, with special tasks of attending and guarding magistrates of the Roman Republic and Empire who held imperium.
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Theodiscus is a Middle Latin adjective referring to the Germanic vernaculars of the Early Middle Ages, first attested in 786 as tam latine quam theodisce "both in Latin and in the vernacular".
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