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Alemanni

Speech parts

1. Alemanni - Noun

2. Alemanni - Adjective

Meaning

A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.

Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.

Of or related to the Alemanni peoples.

Of or related to the Alemannic language or dialects.

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Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened. Source: Internet

Alemanni and Franks lived there and by 794 Charlemagne presided over an imperial assembly and church synod, at which Franconofurd (-furt -vurd) was first mentioned. Source: Internet

As winter was upon them, they reoccupied a "fortification which was founded on the soil of the Alemanni that Trajan wished to be called with his own name". munimentum quod in Alamannorum solo conditum Traianus suo nomine voluit appellari. Source: Internet

By Caracalla's time the name Alemanni was being used by cantons themselves banding together for purposes of supporting a citizen army (the "war bands"). Source: Internet

In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns. Source: Internet

He forced the Alemanni capitulation to Frankish suzerainty and did not appoint a successor to Lantfrid. Source: Internet

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