Tungerer

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Roman Gaul and Germania on the left bank of the Rhine around AD 70.

The Tungerer (also Tungrer , Tungern , Latin Tungri or Tongri ) are a Germanic tribe on the Lower Rhine who moved to the left bank of the Rhine in the area near Tongeren ( Aduatuca Tungrorum , founded as a Roman city in 15 BC) north of Liège.

background

Probably long before the conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar (58 BC), Germanic tribes crossed the Rhine and mixed with the Celts who had probably lived there for around 300 years . Five Germanic tribes on the left bank of the Rhine ( Condrusi , Eburones , Caerosi , Paemani , qui uno nomine Germani appellantur ), as well as the Segner , were named by Caesar (Gall. II, 4,10 and VI, 32,1) as ethnic units. The Eburones became 54/53 BC. Largely exterminated during the Gallic War . The Romans then assigned their land to the Sunukers and Tungers. The area of ​​the Tungri belonged to the province of Gallia Belgica , from the end of the 1st century AD to Germania inferior .

Tacitus wrote in his book Germania :

“The first to cross the Rhine and drive out the Gauls, the current Tungrians, were then called Teutons. So the name of a tribe, not of an entire people, gradually gained wide recognition: at first, after the victor, out of fear of him, they were all referred to as Germanic peoples, but soon they too called themselves that after the name had once appeared. "

Roman auxiliary units

In the early imperial period , the following auxiliary units were recruited into the field of the Tungerer:

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Vindolanda tablet 88/841 and the cohors I Tungrorum milliaria. www.academia.edu, accessed on November 8, 2016 (English).