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	Lombards - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 568 Alboin and the Langobardi, in accordance with a compact made with Baian, which is recorded by Menander, abandoned their old homes to the Avars and passed southwards into Italy, were they were destined to found a new and mighty kingdom.
		The war which had ended in the downfall of the Goths had exhausted Italy; it was followed by famine and pestilence; and the government at Constantinople made but faint efforts to retain the province which Belisarius and Narses had recovered for it.
		Except in a few fortified places, such as Ticinum or Pavia, the Italians did not venture to encounter the new invaders; and, though Alboin was not without generosity, the Lombards, wherever resisted, justified the opinion of their ferocity by the savage cruelty of the invasion.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lombards (3741 words)

	Goths - LoveToKnow 1911
		Moreover the Gepidae, another Teutonic people, who are said to have formerly inhabited the delta of the Vistula, also appear to have been closely connected with the Goths.
		Jordanes records several traditions of their conflicts with other Teutonic tribes, in particular a victory won by Ostrogotha over Fastida, king of the Gepidae, and another by Geberic over Visimar, king of the Vandals, about the end of Constantine's reign, in consequence of which the Vandals sought and obtained permission to settle in Pannonia.
		Possibly the information there given was derived from southern Hungary or Transylvania where remains of the Gepidae were to be found shortly before the Magyar invasion (889).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Goths (5829 words)

	Gepid - Biocrawler
		The Gepids were first mentioned around A.D. 260, when they participated with the Goths in an invasion in Dacia, where they were settled in Jordanes' time, the mid 6th century.
		Their first named king, Fastida, stirred up his quiet people to enlarge their boundaries by war and overwhelmed the Burgundians, almost annihilating them in the 4th century, then fruitlessly demanded of the Goths a portion of their territory, a demand which the Goths successfully repulsed in battle.
		Under their king Ardaric, warriors of the Gepidae joined Attila the Hun's forces in the Battle of Chalons (the "Catalaunian fields") in Gaul (451).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Gepidae (729 words)

	CHAPTER - STATE OF ITALY UNDER THE LOMBARDS
		The nation of the Gepidae was dissolved; but, in the distribution of the captives, the slaves of the Avars were less fortunate than the companions of the Lombards, whose generosity adopted a valiant foe, and whose freedom was incompatible with cool and deliberate tyranny.
		With her daughter, the heiress of the Lombard throne, her two lovers, her trusty Gepidae, and the spoils of the palace of Verona, Rosamond descended the Adige and the Po, and was transported by a Greek vessel to the safe harbor of Ravenna.
		Longinus beheld with delight the charms and the treasures of the widow of Alboin: her situation and her past conduct might justify the most licentious proposals; and she readily listened to the passion of a minister, who, even in the decline of the empire, was respected as the equal of kings.
	www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_d7.htm (9662 words)

	Alboin
		In alliance with the Avars, an Asiatic people who had invaded central Europe, Alboin defeated the Lombards' hereditary enemies, the Gepidae, a powerful nation on his eastern frontier, slew their new king Cunimund, whose skull he fashioned into a drinking-cup, and whose daughter Rosamund he carried off and made his wife.
		The Gothic War, which had ended in the downfall of the Goths, had exhausted Italy, which was wracked with famine and plague, and the Eastern Emperor's government at Constantinople was powerless to retain the Italian province which Belisarius and Narses had recently recovered for it.
		While the siege of Pavia was in progress Alboin was also engaged in other parts of Italy, and at Pavia's capitulation he was probably master of Lombardy, Piedmont and Tuscany, as well as of the regions which afterwards went by the name of the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/a/al/alboin.html (541 words)

	Northvegr - History of the Langobards
		Upon the way they annihilated a division of 3,000 Heroli who were allied to the Gepidae, and the Gepidae made a separate peace with the Langobards (p.
		A second war between the Langobards and Gepidae occurred about 549 (Procopius, IV, 18), when a desperate panic seized both armies at the beginning of a battle, whereupon the two kings concluded a two years' truce.
		Justinian took the side of the Langobards and sent troops into the field, one division of which, under command of Amalafrid, joined the Langobards, while the rest of the troops remained by command of the emperor in Ullpiana to quell certain disturbances (Schmidt, 60, 61).
	www.northvegr.org /lore/langobard/006.php (1561 words)

	Goths in the 3rd Century
		Now the race of the Gepidae was moved with envy when they saw them laden with booty and so suddenly victorious everywhere, and made war on their kinsmen.
		These Gepidae were then smitten by envy while they dwelt in the province of Spesis on an island surrounded by the shallow waters of the Vistula.
		Then Fastida, king of the Gepidae, left the field of slaughter and hastened to his own land, as much humiliated with shame and disgrace as formerly he had been elated with pride.
	www.earth-history.com /Europe/Goths/jordanes-goths-04-3rdcentury.htm (3894 words)

	Bambooweb: Gepidae
		Latin Gepidae) were a Germanic tribe most famous in history for defeating the Huns after the death of Attila.
		Danube]) waters." Thus at the time Jordanus was writing, the Gepidae had succeeded in settling the ancient Dacia, Upper Moesia, on the eastern bank of the Tisza, a river that winds through the plains of Hungary to empty into the Danube (Jordanes, v.33; xxii.113).
		On the eve of the main encounter between allied hordes, the Gepidae and Franks met each other, the Franks fighting for the Romans and the Gepidae for the Huns, and seem to have fought one another to a standstill, with 15,000 dead reported by Jordanes, our main source.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/g/e/Gepidae.html (624 words)

	CHAPTER - STATE OF THE BARBARIC WORLD
		On the opposite banks of the Danube, the plains of Upper Hungary and the Transylvanian hills were possessed, since the death of Attila, by the tribes of the Gepidae, who respected the Gothic arms, and despised, not indeed the gold of the Romans, but the secret motive of their annual subsidies.
		The Gepidae are your brave and faithful allies; and if they have anticipated your gifts, they have shown a just confidence in your bounty.” Their presumption was excused by the mode of revenge which Justinian embraced.
		The hopes or fears of the Barbarians; their intense union or discord; the accident of a frozen or shallow stream; the prospect of harvest or vintage; the prosperity or distress of the Romans; were the causes which produced the uniform repetition of annual visits, tedious in the narrative, and destructive in the event.
	www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_d4.htm (9787 words)

	The Divided Ostrogoths (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The cause of Ardaric, king of the Gepidae, was fortunate for the various nations who were unwillingly subject to the rule of the Huns, for it raised their long downcast spirits to the glad hope of freedom.
		But the Gepidae by their own might won for themselves the territory of the Huns and ruled as victors over the extent of all Dacia, demanding of the Roman Empire nothing more than peace and an annual gift as a pledge of their friendly alliance.
		Now when the Goths saw the Gepidae defending for themselves the territory of the Huns and the people of the Huns dwelling again in their ancient abodes, they preferred to ask for lands from the Roman Empire, rather than invade the lands of others with danger to themselves.
	www.earth-history.com /Europe/eur-jordanes-goths-08-divided.htm (6960 words)

	Alboin - Definition, explanation
		In alliance with the Avars, an Asiatic people who had invaded central Europe, Alboin defeated the Lombards' hereditary enemies, the Gepidae, a powerful nation on his eastern frontier, slew their new king Cunimund, whose skull he fashioned into a drinking-cup, and whose daughter Rosamund he carried off and made his wife.
		The Gothic War, which had ended in the downfall of the Goths, had exhausted Italy, which was wracked with famine and plague, and the Eastern Emperor's government at Constantinople was powerless to retain the Italian province which Belisarius and Narses had recently recovered for it.
		While the siege of Pavia was in progress Alboin was also engaged in other parts of Italy, and at Pavia's capitulation he was probably master of Lombardy, Piedmont and Tuscany, as well as of the regions which afterwards went by the name of the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento.
	www.calsky.de /lexikon/en/txt/a/al/alboin.php (555 words)

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		The Gepidae were an ancient people first known in history as settlers near the southeastern shore of the Baltic.
		Gepidae were conquered by the Lombards and the Avars.
		They were driven out of their homelands bythe Gepidae and dwelt in the country about the Main.
	www.arnold-ruddat.org /history/church/histry3.txt (5107 words)

	Gepid information - Search.com
		The Gepids (Latin Gepidae) were a Germanic tribe most famous in history for defeating the Huns after the death of Attila.
		Danube] waters." Thus at the time Jordanus was writing, the Gepidae had succeeded in settling the ancient Dacia, Upper Moesia, on the eastern bank of the Tisza, a river that winds through the plains of Hungary to empty into the Danube (Jordanes, v.33; xxii.113).
		On the eve of the main encounter between allied hordes, the Gepidae and Franks met each other, the Franks fighting for the Romans and the Gepidae for the Huns, and seem to have fought one another to a standstill, with 15,000 dead reported by Jordanes, our main source.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Gepid (822 words)

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		The Gepidae, a branch of the Old Germanic peoples who at the beginning of the first millennium AD were living along the shores of the Baltic Sea, started to migrate southward in the mid-third century.
		In this period, the Gepidae were ruled by the Avars and a part of the new material culture was probably induced by Avar influence.
		Slavic tribes came to this territory probably as early as during the period of the Gepidae, in the 5th century; a number of them were apparently settled there by the Avars in the 6th century.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/dunay/dunay12.htm (8466 words)

	Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal ...
		Albion, king of the Langobardi, or Lombards, and founder of the kingdom subject to that people in Italy, was the son of that Audoin under whom the Lombards emerge from obscurity to occupy Pannonia, invited by the Emperor of Constantinople, in accordance with the usual Byzantine policy, as a check to the Gepidae.
		That he was personally a Christian, though an Arian, is proved by a letter from a Gallic bishop to his first wife, a Gallic princess, which deplores, not his heathenism, but his heresy (Sirmond.
		Succeeding his father, Alboin accomplished, by the aid of the Avars, the destruction of the Gepidae (see Gibbon, c.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.html?term=Albion (384 words)

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		It was about this time that the Avars, under their first Chagun Baian, entered Europe, and with them,Alboin is said to have made an affiance against the Gepidae under their new king Cunimund.
		(F. The Lombard Kingdom in Italy.—In 568 Alboin, king of the Langobards, with the women and children of the tribe and all their possessions, with Saxon allies, with the subject tribe of the Gepidae and a mixed host of other barbarians, descended into Italy by the great plain at the head of the Adriatic.
		In 572, according to the Lombard chronicler, Alboin fell a victim to the revenge of his wife Rosamund, the daughter of the king of the Gepidae, whose skull Alboin had turned into a drinking cup, out of which he forced Rosamund to drink.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=41211 (3940 words)

	The Germanic Peoples
		The same is true of the Gepidae, and of the Vandals, who went from eastern Europe to France, Spain, and North Africa, whence they were subsequently deported to Byzantium.
		A later group of Gepidae dated from the fifth or sixth centuries in Hungary shows the persistence of this same type; despite historical blending with the Huns, of eight skulls at our disposal, all but three fail to show definite traces of mongoloid mixture, and in these three the non-Nordic traits are not manifested metrically.
		One is forced to the conclusion from this series, as from that of the Goths in the Chersonese, that the East Germanic peoples who took part in these wanderings preserved their original racial characteristics so long as they retained their political and linguistic identity.
	carnby.altervista.org /troe/06-06.htm (5702 words)

	Romania - History - Migration - 5th Century (400-500 AD)
		The Gepidae primarily displaced those Huns who had remained true to their nomadic, raiding party ways.
		The Gepidae, who were also nomadic raiders, probably drove out the Huns because they didn't want competition for the limited booty.
		The Gepidae represented the nomadic warriors and customs agents; the Dacians represented the stationary farmers and herders.
	www.romerica.com /rom/hist_ad0400.htm (521 words)

	Gepidae
		They were retarded Germans who eventually beat the crap out of the Huns.
		corruption the name Gepidae was coined for them by way of reproach.
		Gepidae arose as a gratuitous name of reproach.
	www.groupsrv.com /religion/ptopic95253.html (394 words)

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		Warfare with the Gepidae was constant, and another tribe, the Avars, had begun to migrate into the area from Asia as well.
		After succeeding his father on the Lombard throne in 565 A.D., Alboin soon struck an alliance with the Avars and together the crushed the Gepidae.
		Alboin killed Cunumund, the Gepidae king, and took the king's daughter Rosamund as his unwilling wife.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /NumisWiki/print.asp?key=Lombards (221 words)

	Langobardian Cycle Of Myths
		The poem of "Ortnit," for instance, is known to have existed as early as the ninth century.
		With true heathen cruelty, the Lombard king had the skulls of the Gepidae mounted as drinking vessels, which he delighted in using on all state and festive occasions.
		Then, pushing onwards, Alboin took forcible possession of his new realm and of the tearful young Rosamund, whom he forced to become his wife, although she shrank in horror from the murderer of all her kin and the oppressor of her people.
	bulfinch.englishatheist.org /italy/Langobard.htm (4033 words)

	THE ORIGIN AND DEEDS OF THE GOTHS
		This island they called, in the speech of their fathers, Gepedoios; but it is now inhabited by the race of the Vividarii, since the Gepidae themselves have moved to better lands.
		The Goths returned victorious, content with the retreat of the Gepidae, and dwelt in peace and happiness in their own land so long as Ostrogotha was their leader.
		The renowned king of the Gepidae, Ardaric, was there also with a countless host, and because of his great loyalty to Attila, he shared his plans.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html (22933 words)

	Varese in the Italian Lakes » History of Varese
		Taking with him the women and children of the tribe and all their possessions, along with 20,000 Saxon allies and the subject tribe of the Gepidae, he crossed the great plain at the head of the Adriatic into Italy.
		During the siege of Pavia, King Alboin was also engaged in other parts of Italy, and at Pavia’s capitulation he was then master of all Lombardy, Piedmont and Tuscany, as well as of the regions which afterwards went by the name of the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento.
		In 572, King Alboin fell victim to the revenge of his wife Rosamund, the daughter of the king of the Gepidae, whose skull Alboin had turned into a drinking cup, which at times he forced Rosamund to drink from.
	www.casavarese.com /blog/category/history-of-varese/page/2 (1049 words)

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