Germanic barbarians

Examples of Germanic barbarians in the following topics:

• The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium

  • In military matters, the Roman army was reorganised to consist of mobile field units and garrison soldiers capable of countering internal threats and barbarian invasions.
  • While the Western Empire was overrun by Germanic barbarians—its lands in Italy were conquered by the Ostrogoths, Spain was conquered by the Visigoths, North Africa was conquered by the Vandals, and Gaul was conquered by the Franks—the Eastern Empire thrived.

• Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

  • Odoacer was a Germanic soldier in the Roman army who deposed emperor Augustulus and became the first King of Italy, marking the end of the Western Roman Empire, the fall of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.
  • In 475 a Roman general named Orestes was appointed Magister militum and patrician by the Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos and became head of the Germanic foederati (barbarian mercenary armies for Rome).
  • The Germanic foederati, the Scirians, and the Heruli, as well as a large segment of the Italic Roman army, then proclaimed Odoacer rex Italiae ("king of Italy").
  • In 476, Odoacer became the first barbarian King of Italy, initiating a new era.
  • Coin of Odoacer, Ravenna, 477, with Odoacer in profile, depicted with a "barbarian" moustache.

• The Germanic Tribes

  • They are identified by their use of Germanic languages, which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
  • These five dialects are distinguished as North Germanic in southern Scandinavia; North Sea Germanic in the regions along the North Sea and in the Jutland peninsula, which forms the mainland of Denmark together with the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein; Rhine-Weser Germanic along the middle Rhine and Weser river, which empties into the North Sea near Bremerhaven; Elbe Germanic directly along the middle Elbe river; and East Germanic between the middle of the Oder and Vistula rivers.
  • Odoacer, a German general, took over the Western Roman Empire in his own name, becoming the first barbarian king of Italy.
  • Theoderic the Great became a barbarian king of Italy after he killed Odoacer.
  • Theoderic the Great lived as a hostage at the court of Constantinople for many years and learned a great deal about Roman government and military tactics, which served him well when he became the Gothic ruler of a mixed but largely Romanized "barbarian people."

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • Increasing pressure from barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse.
  • Invading "barbarians" had established their own polities on most of the area of the Western Empire.
  • The first migrations of peoples were made by Germanic tribes such as the Goths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Lombards, Suebi, Frisii, Jutes and Franks; they were later pushed westwards by the Huns, Avars, Slavs, and Bulgars.
  • In 476, after being refused lands in Italy, Orestes' Germanic mercenaries under the leadership of the chieftain Odoacer captured and executed Orestes and took Ravenna, the Western Roman capital at the time, deposing Western Emperor Romulus Augustus.
  • Meanwhile, much of the rest of the Western provinces were conquered by waves of Germanic invasions, most of them being disconnected politically from the East altogether and continuing a slow decline.

• The Norse

  • "Norse art" defines the artistic legacies of Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age, the Viking Age, and the Nordic Bronze Age.
  • "Norse art" is a blanket term for the artistic styles in Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age, the Viking Age, and the Nordic Bronze Age.
  • The majority of Viking and Barbarian art consisted of small, portable objects.
  • While pagan-inspired motifs were spreading in Christian Norse art, northern European Christian missionaries were creating a visual Christian content that was very different from early barbarian legacies.

• Theoderic the Great

  • Theoderic the Great was the King of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy after defeating the first barbarian king, Odoacer; he ruled Italy in its most peaceful and prosperous period since Valentinian until his death in 526.
  • His father was King Theodemir, a Germanic Amali nobleman, and his mother was Ereleuva.
  • In 488, Emperor Zeno ordered Theoderic to overthrow the German Foederatus Odoacer, who had likewise been made Patrician and even King of Italy, but who had since betrayed Zeno, supporting the rebellious Leontius.
  • Memories of his reign made him a hero of German legend as Dietrich von Bern.
  • Theoderic the Great sought alliances with, or hegemony over, the other Germanic kingdoms in the West.

• The Catholic Church

  • After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Catholic faith competed with Arianism for the conversion of the barbarian tribes.
  • Missionaries such as Augustine of Canterbury, who was sent from Rome to begin the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, and, coming the other way in the Hiberno-Scottish mission, Saints Colombanus, Boniface, Willibrord, and Ansgar, among many others, took Christianity into northern Europe and spread Catholicism among the Germanic and Slavic peoples.
  • Some time later that century, various barbarian tribes went from raiding and pillaging the island to settling and invading.

• German Immigration

  • Between 1820 and World War I, many German political refugees came to America following a series of German revolutions.
  • The largest flow of German immigration to America occurred between 1820 and World War I, during which time nearly six million Germans immigrated to the United States.
  • Milwaukee was once known as "the German Athens," and radical Germans trained in politics in the old country dominated the city's Socialists.
  • Although only one in four Germans fought in all-German regiments, they created the public image of the German soldier.
  • In the late nineteenth century, many Germans in cities were socialists, and Germans played a significant role in the labor-union movement.

• German Nouns

• Justinian and Theodora

  • Leo I managed to free himself from the influence of the non-Orthodox chief by supporting the rise of the Isaurians, a semi-barbarian tribe living in southern Anatolia.
  • The end of the Western Empire is sometimes dated to 476, early in Zeno's reign, when the Germanic Roman general Odoacer deposed the titular Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus, but declined to replace him with another puppet.
  • Soon a new Germanic tribe, the Lombards, came in and conquered most of Italy, though Rome, Naples, and Ravenna remained isolated pockets of Byzantine control.
  • At the same time, another new barbarian enemy, the Slavs, appeared from north of the Danube.