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	Life In Alemanni Liechtenstein Part 1
		A young Alemanni male raided the village where the woman of his fancy lived and carried her off to be his wife.
		Marriages among the Alemanni nobility were mostly arranged as a political move and not often for love while the parties were still children.
		Alemanni parents tried to raise their children to be able to survive and thrive in their harsh times.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/liechtenstein/82382 (461 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 2 - Chapter XXV Part IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Six thousand of the Alemanni were slain, four thousand were wounded; and the brave Jovinus, after chasing the flying remnant of their host as far as the banks of the Rhine, returned to Paris, to receive the applause of his sovereign, and the ensigns of the consulship for the ensuing year.
		While the Alemanni appeared to be humbled by their recent calamities, the pride of Valentinian was mortified by the unexpected surprisal of Moguntiacum, or Mentz, the principal city of the Upper Germany.
		The Alemanni, unable to prevent the devastation of their villages, fixed their camp on a lofty, and almost inaccessible, mountain, in the modern duchy of Wirtemberg, and resolutely expected the approach of the Romans.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-2/chap50.html (3425 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: AMMAN — The European Union (EU) is bracing itself for a ...
		The policy Alemanni was reverting to presents a readiness on the part of the EU to share all but institutions with partner countries, including a complete sharing of policies; agricultural, transport, energy, asylum, anti-fraud, etc.
		According to Alemanni, action plans are tailor-made to fit each EU partner's ambitions vis-ý-vis Europe instead of a one-size-fits-all association agreement which in many cases did not live up to its potential.
		Alemanni did concede to the fact that time has passed on association agreements and the EU needs to change many clauses to adapt to new realities, namely terrorism.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=36379 (618 words)

	'Good Morning America's' Best Garden on view \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		ELFIN FOREST – When hundreds of curious gardeners knocked on Evelyn Alemanni's door to get a glimpse of her award-winning garden, she told them to come back in the spring when her garden would be in full bloom.
		Alemanni's garden had just been chosen as a one of five finalists in "Good Morning America's" Best Garden in America contest, and she wanted time to figure out how to accommodate all the interest.
		Alemanni lost her garden in the Harmony Grove fire in 1996, so she was motivated to select gardens for the tour that would provide an example of fire-resistant landscaping.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040418/news_m1m18tfelfin.html (469 words)

	Roman Open Air Museum Hechingen-Stein - Introduction
		The Alemanni may have found it convenient to locate their settlements nearby, since the surrounding farmland had already been cleared and prepared for cultivation.
		There is evidence in Hechingen-Stein that the Alemanni walled up the entrances to the main building and constructed their own wooden houses immediately to the north.
		Although the Alemanni were superb artisans and far excelled the Romans in metalworking, they lacked all knowledge of statecraft and civic organisation with all of its advantages.
	www.villa-rustica.de /intro/index04e.html (277 words)

	Life In Alemanni Liechtenstein Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most Alemanni were not warriors full time but tilled the land, harvested the crops, cut the wood, tended the sheep and cattle, hunted game in the woods and raised their families.
		The average Alemanni was tall with broad-shoulders but some were lean and even thin from ever present hunger.
		Alemanni living in settlements were better off but not by much.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/liechtenstein/85195 (446 words)

	Early History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Alemanni engaged the forces of Emperor Constantine of the Holy Roman Empire, whom he had trusted to his faithful ally Gronodid.
		The Alemanni left 6,000 dead on the battlefield when Julian attacked ferociously, but were only defeated in a serious footman to footman fight.
		With irresistible force, the armies of the Alemanni broke through the great chain of frontier fortifications between the Main and Danube, and after overpowering the scattered Roman Legions, poured like a flood across the whole of the "Agir Decumatis," and established permanently in the conquered territory.
	rjhenry.homedns.org:8000 /familyweb/html/early_history.html (2180 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Chapter XI Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Collecting an active body of troops, he marched with silence and celerity along the skirts of the Hercynian forest; and the Alemanni, laden with the spoils of Italy, arrived at the Danube, without suspecting, that on the opposite bank, and in an advantageous post, a Roman army lay concealed and prepared to intercept their return.
		A few days afterwards, the emperor himself marched to the relief of Italy, at the head of a chosen body of auxiliaries, (among whom were the hostages and cavalry of the Vandals,) and of all the Prætorian guards who had served in the wars on the Danube.
		As the light troops of the Alemanni had spread themselves from the Alps to the Apennine, the incessant vigilance of Aurelian and his officers was exercised in the discovery, the attack, and the pursuit of the numerous detachments.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-1/chap31.html (3294 words)

	Rome - Vol I, Chapter XI, Part 2
		At the same time, the lucky though accidental resemblance of the name of Getae, C infused among the credulous Goths a vain persuasion, that in a remote age, their own ancestors, already seated in the Dacian provinces, had received the instructions of Zamolxis, and checked the victorious arms of Sesostris and Darius.
		As the light troops of the Alemanni had spread themselves from the Alps to the Apennine, the incessant vigilance of Aurelian and his officers was exercised in the discovery, the attack, and the pursuit of the numerous detachments.
		The Romans of a more prosperous age, who trusted to the arms of the legions the safety of the frontier camps, 44 were very far from entertaining a suspicion, that it would ever become necessary to fortify the seat of empire against the inroads of the barbarians.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol1/ch1102.html (3302 words)

	Alamanni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Alamanni, Allemanni or Alemanni, were a Germanic tribe, first mentioned by Dio Cassius when they fought Caracalla in 213.
		695) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus, when the Alemanni assembled under their "king" whom he calls Chrocus "by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
		Thus 6th-century Gallo-Romans of Gregory's class, surrounded by the ruins of Roman temples and public buildings, attributed the destruction they saw to the plundering raids of the Alemanni.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alemanni (747 words)

	Chapter Emperors Decius, Gallus, Æmilianus, Valerian And Gallienus. of History of The Decline And Fall of The ...
		The Alemanni fought chiefly on horseback; but their cavalry was rendered still more formidable by a mixture of light infantry, selected from the bravest and most active of the youth, whom frequent exercise had inured to accompany the horsemen in the longest march, the most rapid charge, or the most precipitate retreat.
		The Alemanni, astonished with the sudden appearance of an army more numerous than their own, retired into Germany, laden with spoil; and their retreat was esteemed as a victory by the unwarlike Romans.
		The rich and luxurious nobles, sinking into their natural character, accepted, as a favor, this disgraceful exemption from military service; and as long as they were indulged in the enjoyment of their baths, their theatres, and their villas, they cheerfully resigned the more dangerous cares of empire to the rough hands of peasants and soldiers.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25652/9.html (803 words)

	German4
		The Alemanni and Franks were quietly settled along the Rhine.
		The Alemanni pushed into the region lying between the Rhine and the Danube Rivers known as the Agri Decumates, or Tithe Lands.
		The alpine regions of modern-day Alsace and Switzerland constituted the primary residence of the Alemanni throughout this period.
	www.motherbedford.com /German4.htm (949 words)

	German3
		The unrest caused by the displacement of the smaller Germanic tribes spurred the formation of extended tribes or confederacies such as the Alemanni, Franks, Bavarians, Saxons, Thuringians and the Frisians.
		The Alemanni originated in the region along the Neckar River and as they got squeezed in by the Goths, they in turn moved into the Black Forest.
		Crossing the Alps along the northern border of Italy, the Alemanni confronted the Romans under Claudius II at Lake Garda, but were repelled there also.
	www.motherbedford.com /German3.htm (1069 words)

	Chapter Reign Of Clovis. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
		That fortunate district, from the lake to the Avenche, and Mount Jura, was occupied by the Burgundians.
		A province, improved and adorned by the arts of Rome, was again reduced to a savage wilderness; and some vestige of the stately Vindonissa may still be discovered in the fertile and populous valley of the Aar.
		The last king of the Alemanni was slain in the field, and his people were slaughtered or pursued, till they threw down their arms, and yielded to the mercy of the conqueror.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25680/3.html (841 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Gardens of variety
		ELFIN FOREST – In this picturesque rural enclave, Evelyn Alemanni's garden is one of the few that has been in the public eye.
		Alemanni, a writer, gardener, artist and 16-year resident of the area, has put together an event that will showcase some spectacular local gardens.
		Alemanni's garden, also featured in the tour, is a color-splashed living collage of flowers, fruit and nut trees, succulents and vegetables.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20030427-9999_m1m27tfelfin.html (444 words)

	The Imperial Age
		The Alemanni, Markomanni and Juthungi are pillaging the alpine region and northern Italy.
		Julian the Apostate defeats the Alemanni in the battle of Argentoratum (Strasbourg) and allows the Franks to settle in Belgium as Roman allies (foederati).
		An invasion by the Alemanni is repelled and their homeland is ravaged by Romans and Burgundians.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/rome2.htm (2399 words)

	Northvegr - History of the Franks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And when he had committed a great many crimes he gathered the tribe of the Alemanni, as we have stated,-by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother,-and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
		The bishop of Gévaudan is maltreated by the Alemanni.]
		Under Diocletian, who was emperor of Rome in the thirty-third place, a cruel persecution of the Christians was kept up for four years, at one time in the course of which great numbers of Christians were put to death, on the sacred day of Easter, for worshipping the true God.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/frank/011.php (1327 words)

	Villa Marsili hotel Cortona Tuscany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the beginning of the XIVth century, the Chiesa della Madonna degli Alemanni, a very ancient church with an underneath oratory, was standing on the very spot of the hotel.
		The cult of the Madonna degli Alemanni was so widespread and deeply felt that the church proved to be too narrow to host its devotees.
		The church of the Madonna degli Alemanni was thus knocked down in 1786.
	www.villamarsili.net /eng/storia.htm (433 words)

	History of Dage
		Dwarven teachings have strongly influenced these people, and there is a close bond between the Alemanni and the dwarvish civilization of the region.
		Alemanni peoples from the Danegund start to migrate into Celtic lands as mercenaries and settlers.
		Dakar (Alemanni) barbarians and orcish armies reach the northern mountains of Aemilia after crushing five Kadian legions in open battle on the Tortugan plains.
	www.freemode.net /dage/history.html (3303 words)

	GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
		These were the Saxons, the Alemanni, the Thuringians, and the Rugians.
		All these tribes in Germany were eventually subjugated by the Franks, the Alemanni in 496 and 505, the Thuringians in 531, the Bavarians at some point after 553, and then finally the Saxons by 804.
		The Alemanni were a confederation of German tribes, an old adversary of Rome, from the 3rd century.
	www.friesian.com /germania.htm (6301 words)

	Northvegr - Germanic Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At this time the King was yet in the errors of his idolatry and went to war with the Alemanni, since he wished to render them tributary.
		Instantly when he had said this, his men were filled with burning valor, and a great fear smote his enemies, so that they turned their backs and fled the battle; and victory remained with the King and with the Franks.
		The king of the Alemanni were slain; and as for the Alemanni, seeing themselves discomfited, and that their king had fallen, they yielded themselves to Chlodovocar and his Franks and became his tributaries.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/germanic/d.php (1529 words)

	Teutons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Alemanni were a late classical-era people who succeeded in occupying southwestern Germany, Alsace, and northern Switzerland in the 3rd century (first mentioned in 213 CE).
		As the Alemanni Confederation appeared in close to the same area the Hermanduri lived in, it is reasonable to suppose that the Hermanduri, along with the Semnones, formed much of the new Confederation.
		It is unclear whether they were stay-at-home Alemanni, or simply a lesser tribe that was in the right place at the right time.
	www.hostkingdom.net /Teutons.html (4318 words)

	Teune family home page
		The early centuries A.D. were a difficult time for the Roman empire as it saw the rise of increased barbarian activity from the north.
		The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group.
		Although several tribes put their military forces under the joint command of two leaders for the duration of a campaign, the different peoples generally found it difficult to combine, and they had nothing that could be called a central government.
	www.teune.com /ancient.php (209 words)

	AllRefer.com - Luigi Alemanni (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Luigi Alemanni (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	French language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From the third century on, Western Europe was invaded by Germanic (or "Barbarian") tribes from the east, and some of these groups settled in Gaul.
		For the history of the French language, the most important of these groups are the Franks (northern France), the Alemanni (German/French border), the Burgundians (the Rhone valley) and the Visigoths (the Aquitaine region and Spain).
		These Germanic-speaking groups had a profound effect on the Latin spoken in their respective regions, altering both the pronunciation and the syntax.
	open-encyclopedia.com /French_language (2510 words)

	Alemanni -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		part of kingdom) at battle of Tertry 687, which made him master of the Frankish kingdoms; subdued Frisians and Alemanni; son of Pippin of Landen and father of Charles Martel.
		The Germanic tribes were divided chiefly into Goths, Burgundians, Vandals, Alemanni, Bavarians, Langobards (Lombards), Franks, Angles, Saxons, and Frisians.
		The Gothic tribes (Visigoths and Ostrogoths) had been established along the shores of the lower Danube and the Black Sea for nearly 200 years.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005563 (581 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why are there so many names for Germany, AKA Deutschland, Allemagne, etc.?
		They settled in what is now Alsace in the fourth century AD and were defeated by the Franks in 496.
		Alemanni may derive from an early German word meaning "all the men," which I suppose is roughly equivalent to "all us guys"--as opposed, naturally, to all you guys.
		The Franks, in a moment of uncharacteristic liberality, apparently decided to call the Alemanni by the name they called themselves.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_162.html (1120 words)

	Profile and History of the Ami-Lac Construction System - Girders & Gears
		Then, in 1954, Dante Alemanni, head of the company founded by his father Leonida Alemanni in 1908, acquired the firm of Fratelli Comerio, the maker of AMI sets, and began to manufacture new metal construction sets under the name Ami-Lac.
		The second three letters are the initials of Leonida Alemanni Casalpusterlengo, where Leonida Alemanni is the name of the company (and its founder), and Casalpusterlengo is the name of the town in northern Italy where the factory is located.
		According to the current head of the company, Ausonio Alemanni, "We have produced metal construction sets since the mid-1950s, deviating very little from making the basic outfits, numbered 2 through 8, and only recently introducing monothematic sets.
	www.girdersandgears.com /amilac-sets.html (845 words)

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