Wielbark culture

The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering. 1st century - Events. 1–Beginning of Christianity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth Spread of the Roman Empire Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh 70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Moun ...

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The Vistula (Polish: Wisła) is the longest river in Poland. It is 1,047 kilometers (678 miles) long and drains about 192,000 square kilometers (74,000 sq. miles), or almost two thirds of Poland's surface. The Vistula has its source in the south of the country, at Barania Góra (1220 m high) in the Beskidy Mountains where it starts with the White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and the Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wisełka). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polis ...

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The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. The Vandals may have given their name to the province of Andalusia (originally, Vandalusia, then Arabic Al-Andalus), in the south of Spain, where they temporarily settled before pushing on to Africa. The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the Burgund ...

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The Vandals were divided in two tribal groups, the Silingi and the Hasdingi. The Silingi lived in an area recorded for centuries as Magna Germania, now Silesia. In the 2nd century, the Hasdingi, led by the kings Raus and Rapt (or Rhaus and Raptus) moved south, and first attacked the Romans in the lower Danube area, then made peace and settled in western Dacia (Romania) and Roman Hungary. In 400 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals along with their allies, (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians), star ...

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Vandals, Vandals - Origins, Vandals - History, Vandals - Gaul, Vandals - Iberia, Vandals - Africa, Vandals - Sack of Rome, Vandals - Decline, Vandals - List of kings, Vandals - Vandalic language, Vandals - Modern heritage

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In the 1st century AD, the mouth of the Vistula was indicated as the land of the Gutones (Pliny the Elder) or Gothones (Tacitus): Beyond the Lygians dwell the Gothones, under the rule of a king; and thence held in subjection somewhat stricter than the other German[ic] nations, yet not so strict as to extinguish all their liberty. Immediately adjoining are the Rugians and Lemovians upon the coast of the ocean, and of these several nations the characteristics are a round ...

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Gothiscandza, Gothiscandza - History and linguistics, Gothiscandza - Archaeology, Gothiscandza - Norse mythology, Gothiscandza - The Gutasaga, Gothiscandza - Ynglingatal

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Oium - Settlement. Jordanes relates that their king Filimer lead the Goths searching for suitable lands and when they found Oium they were delighted with the richness of the land. When half the army had passed a bridge, the bridge collapsed and so no one could pass the area anymore. The Goths claimed the land for themselves and defeated the previous inhabitants, the Spali (which probably was the ruling Sarmatian clan). They then claimed the plains near the Azov Sea. The Goths then made a second migration to Moesia, Dacia and Thrace, but then they returned to Oium in a third migration and sett ...

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Oium, Oium - Jordanes, Oium - Settlement, Oium - Merger with Scythian Dacian and Thracian history from classic sources, Oium - The Goths' proper history, Oium - Norse mythology

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The archaeological record shows that the population of the Wielbark culture had settled in the area and mixed with the previous populations of the Zarubintsy culture. This cultural movement is widely accepted as the migration of the Goths from Gothiscandza to Oium, of which the Goth scholar Jordanes wrote in the sixth century. In the last decades of the second century, the Goths appear to have settled in Masovia, Podlachia and Volynia regions, but some of them mo ...

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Chernyakhov culture, Chernyakhov culture - Formation, Chernyakhov culture - Finds

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It is not known whether the name Vistula is Indo-European or pre-Indo-European. The name was first recorded by Pliny in AD 77 in his Natural History. He uses Vistula (4.52, 4.89) with an alternative spelling, Vistillus (3.06). The Vistula River ran into the Mare Suebicum, which we know as the Baltic Sea. From all the sources one can deduce that near the delta lived the tribes of the Suebi and Burgundians, and on both banks the Goths (see also Gothiscandza and Wielbark culture). The Goths, at least, spoke East Germanic. East of ...

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The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th century, they were referred to as Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by Jordanes and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are referred to as Gautar, and in Beowulf and Widsith as Geatas. The Geats were formerly politically independent of the Swedes, whose old name was Svear (Sweon or Sweonas in OE). However ...

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Geat, Geat - History, Geat - On Geats and Goths, Geat - On Gautar and Geatas

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In the 1st century a new culture appeared at the mouth of the Vistula, called the Wielbark Culture replacing the local Oksywie culture. The most salient component of Scandinavian influence in the 1st century AD is the introduction of Scandinavian burial traditions such as stone circles and the stelae, showing that those who buried their dead preferred to do so according to Scandinavian traditions. However, there is also archaeological evidence of previous Scandinavian influence in the area during the Nordic Bron ...

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Gothiscandza, Gothiscandza - History and linguistics, Gothiscandza - Archaeology, Gothiscandza - Norse mythology, Gothiscandza - The Gutasaga, Gothiscandza - Ynglingatal

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Geatas was originally Proto-Germanic *Gautoz and Goths and Gutar were *Gutaniz. *Gautoz and *Gutaniz are two ablaut grades of a Proto-Germanic word *geutan with the meaning "to pour" (modern Swedish gjuta, modern German giessen) designating the tribes as "pourers of semen" or "men".[citation needed] They were consequently two derivations from the same proto-Germanic ...

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Geat, Geat - History, Geat - On Geats and Goths, Geat - On Gautar and Geatas

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The generally accepted identification between the Götar and Gautar as the Geatas of Beowulf is mainly based on the observation that the Ö monophthong of modern Swedish and the AU diphthong of Old Norse correspond to the EA diphthong of Old English. Correspondences: bröd löv öst dröm död röd nöt köp öga hög söm töm öd brauð lauf austr draumr dauðr rauðr naut kaup auga< ...

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Geat, Geat - History, Geat - On Geats and Goths, Geat - On Gautar and Geatas

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Vistula - Towns and tributaries. Biała Wisełka Vistula valley east of Toruń Vistula flooding south of Warsaw, 2004 Bridge across the Vistula in Płock Vistula Vistula - Right tributaries. List of right tributaries with a nearby city Brennica - Skoczów Iłownica Biała - Czechowice-Dziedzice Soła Skawa - ...

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The Vistula is navigable, but over large parts of its course the standards do not entirely meet the requirements of modern inland navigation. From the Baltic Sea to Bydgoszcz (where the Bydgoszcz Kanal or Bromberg canal connects to the river) the Vistula can accommodate modest river vessels of CEMT class II. Further upstream the river does not have enough depth to allow river barges to navigate. Upstream of Warsawa, a project was undertaken to enlarge the capacity of the river by the building of a number of locks in the Cracow area; t ...

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The Vandals were first identified with Przeworsk culture in the 19th century [citation needed]. Controversy surrounds potential connections between the Vandals and another possibly Germanic tribe, the Lugii (Lygier, Lugier or Lygians). Some academics believe that either Lugii was an earlier name of the Vandals, or the Vandals were part of the Lugian federation. Similarity of names have suggested homelands for the Vandals in Norway (Hallingdal) Sweden (Vendel) or Denmark (Vendsyssel). The Vandals are assumed to have c ...

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Vandals, Vandals - Origins, Vandals - History, Vandals - Gaul, Vandals - Iberia, Vandals - Africa, Vandals - Sack of Rome, Vandals - Decline, Vandals - List of kings, Vandals - Vandalic language, Vandals - Modern heritage

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