Gambrivier

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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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Strabo, Geography 7, 291.
  2. ^ Tacitus, Germania 2.