Gambrivier
The Gambrivier ( Latin Gambrivii , also Gamabrivii ) were a Germanic tribe.
For the first time they were mentioned by Strabo as Γαμαβρίουιοι ( Gamabríuioi ). He names them in a group with the Chatters , Chattuars and Cheruscans , so that like them they probably lived near the Weser . The Gambrivians also appear in the Germania of Tacitus . He counted them among the tribes that mythologically go back to the sons of the Germanic god Mannus . Maybe they are to be equated with that tribal part of the Sugambrer , who after the resettlement of a large part of the tribe 8 BC On the left bank of the Rhine by the Romans (a result of the Drusus campaigns 12–8 BC) on the right bank of the Rhine.
literature
- Max Him : Gambrivii . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 691.
- Günter Neumann , Dieter Timpe : Gambrivi. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 10, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015102-2 , pp. 406-409.