North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden and one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Geats...
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group Swedes (tribe), an ancient North Germanic tribe inhabiting parts of modern-day Sweden and Finland Swede (nickname), a list of people George Swede (born...
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(gutniska). They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with historical Swedes and Geats. The name of the Gutes in Old West Norse is Gotar...
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in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia. Like other Scandinavians, Swedes descend from the presumably Indo-European...
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Ages. They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with the tribes of Swedes and Gutes. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish...
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AD 98. Tacitus describes the "Anglii" as one of the more remote Suebic tribes compared to the Semnones and Langobardi, who lived on the Elbe and were...
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North Germanic peoples (redirect from North Germanic tribe)
most numerous of these tribes were the Swedes and the Danes, who were an offshoot of the Swedes. Another North Germanic tribe were the Ranii, whose king...
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Gammalsvenskby (redirect from Swedes in Ukraine)
arriving on 1 May 1781. Only about 400 Swedes remained behind in Dagö. While some sources call the Estonian Swedes' migration an outright expulsion from...
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List of Swedish-speaking Finns (redirect from List of notable Finland-Swedes)
v t e Subgroups and diaspora of Finnish people Traditional subgroups or tribes (heimot) Finns proper Tavastians Karelians Savonians Ostrobothnians Kainuu...
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Sweden Finns (redirect from Finnishspeaking Swedes)
Languages of Sweden Sami Karelians Tornedalians Ingrians Forest Finns Finland-Swedes Kvens "Ruotsinsuomalaiset". Archived from the original on 19 December 2007...
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Vandals (redirect from Vandals (tribe))
Denmark) were styled Suecorum, Gothorum et Vandalorum Rex ("King of the Swedes, Geats, and Wends"). Carl XVI Gustaf dropped the title in 1973 and now styles...
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Lenape (redirect from Delaware (tribe))
regions. Lenape people currently belong to the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, the Stockbridge–Munsee Community in Wisconsin, and...
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The Batavi [bäˈt̪äːu̯iː] were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from...
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List of early Germanic peoples (redirect from Germanic tribe)
(ancient Swedes) (Svíar): Wægmunding clan; Ynglings / Scylfings clan (Scylfingas / Skilfingar) Västermännen (in Västmanland) (Svionic tribe that lived...
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Teutons (redirect from Teutons (Germanic tribe))
Teutones, Teutoni, Ancient Greek: Τεύτονες) were an ancient northern European tribe mentioned by Roman authors. The Teutons are best known for their participation...
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Scandza, Jordanes says that the Dani were of the same stock as the Suetidi ("Swedes") and expelled the Heruli and took their lands. The Old English poems Widsith...
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the kingdom as meaning (Kingdom of the Swedes), some historians have argued that Sweden was unified when the Swedes first solidified their control over the...
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Germania (98 AD). In Germania 44 and 45 he mentions the Swedes (Suiones) as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow at each end (longships). Which...
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The Buri were a Germanic tribe in the time of the Roman empire who lived in mountainous and forested lands north of the Danube, in an area near what is...
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List of Beowulf characters (section Tribes and clans)
with Swedes and Danes, and it has been suggested that Beowulf refers to the people of Östergötland. Heathobards, or Heaðo-beardnas – a clan or tribe at...
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Attundaland Fjärdhundraland Fälö by Tiundaland Stones of Mora Swedes (Germanic tribe) Norrtälje Roslagen — från forntid till nutid Archived 2018-08-13...
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Anglo-Scandinavian Danes (Germanic tribe) Geats Goths Gotlander Haplogroup I-M253 Norse-Gaels Swedes (Germanic tribe) For example: "Most of the earliest...
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Saxons (redirect from Saxons (tribe))
tribe, but the interpretation of this text ("Axones" in most surviving manuscripts) is disputed. According to this proposal, the original Saxon tribe...
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Germanic peoples (redirect from East Germanic tribe)
the 10th and 11th centuries. The last Germanic people to convert were the Swedes, although the Geats had converted earlier. The pagan Temple at Uppsala seems...
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Swedish soldiers in the Congo Free State (section List of notable Swedes who would travel to the Congo)
Italians In fact, the Swedes were so numerous that for a short time, they had their own colonial school in Wavre, Belgium. Many Swedes were to defend stations...
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Scandza (redirect from Mixi (Germanic tribe))
birds's eggs and a variety of swamp game. There were also the Suehans (Swedes), who had splendid horses like the Thuringians. (Snorri Sturluson wrote...
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List of Swedish monarchs (redirect from King of the Swedes)
author Tacitus (c. 56–126) mention two main peoples or tribes in modern Sweden: the Svear (Swedes) and Götar (Geats); the Svear are mentioned in more foreign...
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or Swēorīċe, land or kingdom of the Swēon, whereas the Germanic tribe of the Swedes was called Svíþjóð in Old Norse. The latter is a compositum consisting...
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Germany. It refers not to a homogeneous people, but to various people, tribes or groups depending on where and when it was used. In the modern day, communities...
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Jutes (redirect from Jutes_(tribe))
The Jutes (/dʒuːts/ JOOTS) were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in Great Britain after the departure of the Romans. According to Bede, they were...
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