Lugier
The Lugier (outdated Lygians , Latin Lugii ) were an East Germanic tribal group. In the 1st century AD they settled around what is now Silesia .
The Lugians settled in Silesia along the Oder and in the adjacent area. The ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo called the Lugians a great people that comprised several tribes. The Roman historian Tacitus names in his ethnographic work Germania the Harier , Helvekonen , Manimer , Helisier and the Nahanarvaler as part of the “Lugian group” , on whose territory the Lugian cult community maintained a holy grove. Tacitus also mentions the Gotons as northern neighbors . In his geographical instructions, Klaudios Ptolemaios names only three subgroups of the Lugians, the Iomannoi (German: Omanen ), Idounoi and Bouroi (German: Boers ).
Little is known about the actual history of the Lugier. According to Strabo, the Lugians are said to have belonged temporarily to the kingdom of Marbod , which had established an empire in the Bohemian region . The amber trade was economically important and also aroused desires. In the middle of the 1st century AD the rule of Vannius broke up in the Bohemian region . The Lugians are said to have played a certain role in this, they were probably also supported by the Romans. In any case, they supported the Lugians in 92 in the context of the conflict with the Marcomanni . The knowledge of later authors about the Lugier was apparently limited, so that various incorrect attributions can be assumed, as in the case of the late antique historian Zosimos , who is not always reliable anyway.
It is often assumed in research that the Vandals were related to the Lugians; It is unclear whether they were identical or whether the Lugians belonged to the Vandals or, conversely, whether the Vandals belonged to the Association of Lugians, which Castritius assumes for the first and second centuries AD. This thesis is not undisputed, but it would also explain the later disappearance of the Lugians from ancient sources. Furthermore, Castritius considers the Lugier to be the main ethnic group of the Przeworsk culture .
literature
- Helmut Castritius , Günter Neumann : Lugier. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 19. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-017163-5 , pp. 30-35.
- Karlheinz Dietz : Lugii. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 489 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Strabon, Geographika , 7,1,3.
- ^ Tacitus, Germania , 43, 2.
- ↑ Ptolemy 2:11, 18; 20. Cf. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Vol. 19 (2001), p. 32.
- ↑ Strabo, Geographika , 7, 1, 3.
- ^ Cassius Dio 67, 5.
- ↑ See Helmut Castritius : The Vandals. Stages of a search for clues. Stuttgart 2007, pp. 16 and 21ff.