Nation

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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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Arabia Felix

Arabs: the people living in the country to the west and south of Mesopotamia. Ancient Yemen Although the name "Arab" means something like "nomad",…

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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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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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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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Copts

Copts: Name for the Christian population of Egypt and Nubia in Late Antiquity.Rediscovery The Phoenix, the bird that rejuvenated itself, as…

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Etruscans

Etruscans: ancient nation, living in the first millennium BCE in the area between the rivers Tiber and Arno.Origin Lemnos, tombstone of an…

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Hittites

Hittites: ancient nation in Central Anatolia, named after their capital Hattusa, builders of one of the great Bronze Age empires.Origin Kaneš, the…

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Illyrians

Illyrians (Greek Ἰλλυρίοι): the name the ancient Greeks and Romans gave to the various tribes and states in the general area of Albania and former Yugoslavia.Name …

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