People

On this page, you will find an overview of people who are best known as groups (and not as individuals).

There are 59 items in People:

Aequi

Aequi: ancient people, originally living in the western Apennines. Migrating to eastern Latium, they became one of the four main enemies of archaic Rome. …

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Alamanni

Alamanni (German: "all men"; greek Ἀλαμανοι): inhabitants of the triangle between Rhine and Danube, more or less in the Black Forest. …

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Aramaeans

Aramaeans: name of the Iron Age people living in what is now Syria. Their language, Aramaic, became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East. …

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Arians

Arians or Areians (Old-Persian Haraiva): ancient tribe, living in western Afghanistan. Their name means "noblemen". Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria In historical times, the…

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Avars

Avars: ancient and medieval nation, living in modern Hungary and along the Middle and Lower Danube, dominating power in Central Europe between c.560 and c.790 CE.This timeline was taken from Walter Pohl, The Avars. A Steppe Empire in Central Europe,…

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Bacchiads

Bacchiads (Greek: Βακχιάδαι): aristocratic elite of Corinth in the early Archaic Period.The Bacchiads were the aristocratic elite, dominating Corinth in the second half of the eighth and first half of the seventh centuries BCE. Claiming descent from Heracles, they were…

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Cadusians

Cadusians: nomad tribe in ancient Iran, living in the western Elburz mountains, between the heartland of Media and the Caspian Sea, in the modern provinces Zanjan and Azerbaijan in Iran. …

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Cananefates

Cananefates: tribal formation in the west of the Roman province of Germania Inferior.Origin Adiutor, a Cananefatic horseman Also spelled Cannenefates; prounounced with…

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Celts

Celts: common name for the Iron Age civilizations of Western Europe, more or less identical to the La Tène culture.Names The…

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Chamavi

Chamavi: ancient Germanic tribe on the northern edge of the Roman Empire.Homeland: Hamaland? The IJssel River in the winter Like all Germanic…

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Chorasmia

Chorasmia (Old Persian Uvârazmiya): satrapy of the ancient Achaemenid Empire, in modern Uzbekistan. Later, it was an independent kingdom. Map of…

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