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A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century. quotations examples
The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.
1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, page 271
The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi).
2011 September 15, “Alemanni”, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes. quotations examples
On the basis of their location along the Rhine River during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I have concluded that my ancestors were Alemanni and Franks, though lacking in ethnic purity.
2011 October 1, Richard J. Gehman, “Reflections on our Germanic Mennonite Heritage”, in Bible Fellowship Church Online History Center, archived from the original on 16 December 2020
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Of or related to the Alemanni peoples. quotations examples
This time, however, his troops faced the full brunt of an Alemanni force that attacked them on the way.
2007, Michael Curtis Ford, Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire, page 109
Of or related to the Alemannic language or dialects. examples