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L. Michael Whitby

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

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Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
131 words
a Germanic group, described by Tacitus as few but courageous (Germ. 40). In the 1st cent. ad they lived along the lower Elbe, but by the 160s they were threatening the upper Danube ... More
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World Encyclopedia

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
62 words

Germanic peoples who inhabited the area e of the lower River Elbe until driven w by the Romans in ad

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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
674 words
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A people of Germanic origin, conquerors of part of Italy from 568. A kingdom was organised in the North

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,012 words

One of the peoples who convulsed the later *Roman Empire and created a kingdom in *Italy that lasted from 568

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Thomas S. Brown

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
392 words

(Λαγγοβάρδαι in Prokopios, Λαγούβαρδωι and Λογγίβαρδοι in Constantine Porphyrogennetos), a west-Germanic people who occupied Pannonia in the early 6th C. Their king, ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2006

a member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century, and who settled in what became Lombardy...

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