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 Germanic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The details of the expansion are known only generally, but it is clear that the forebears of the Goths were settled on the southern Baltic shore by 100 AD.
The early Germanic tribes spoke mutually intelligible dialects, and shared a common culture and mythology (see Germanic mythology), as is indicated by Beowulf and the Volsunga saga.
Going farther back, most of the current territory of Germany was occupied by Celtic and Nordwestblock tribes who were eventually linguistically assimilated into the Germanic peoples.
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 Nordwestblock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Als '''Nordwestblock''' wird mangels einer besseren Bezeichnung eine historische Gruppe von Völkern in Mitteleuropa zwischen Main, Werra, und Aller, Unterweser und Rhein benannt, die der alteuropäischen Gruppe angehörte und 200 v.
Zu den Völkern des Nordwestblocks gehörten auch die (später germanischen) Cherusker, Hermunduren und Chatten.
Erst um Christi Geburt wurden die Stämme des Nordwestblocks von einer germanischen Oberschicht dominiert (zu der z.B. auch Arminius/Hermann der Cherusker gehörte).
bodo.subdomain.de /Nordwestblock   (172 words)

  
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The details of the expansion are known only generally, but it is clear that the forebears of the Goths were settled on the southern Baltic Sea Baltic shore by 100 AD.
According to some scholars, along the lower and middle Rhine, previous Nordwestblock local inhabitants seem to have come under the leadership of Germanic figures from outside.
By the late 2nd century, B.C., Roman authors recount Gaul, Italy, and Spain were invaded by migrating Germanic tribes, culminating in military conflict with the armies of the Roman Empire.
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 History of Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linguists have proposed that there is evidence that the Belgae had previously spoken an Indo European language intermediate between Celtic and Germanic.
This language or group of languages is sometimes referred to as the Nordwestblock.
In 54 BC, the Belgae were overcome by Julius Caesar, as described in his chronicle De Bello Gallico.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Belgium   (3975 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Nordwestblock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Nordwestblock; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Nordwestblock   (307 words)

  
 Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Saturday, January 29, 2005
The Battle Axe folk are also known as the Corded Ware Culture after the cord-marked pottery that suddenly appears around the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition period.
Although scenarios vary, the Battle Axe people have been suggested as non-Indo-European speakers who are invaded or otherwise amalgamate with an early Indo-European folk described as Nordwestblock.
The resulting culture is, in turn, invaded by or met with migrations from Proto-Germanic speaking people.
sambali.blogspot.com /2005_01_29_sambali_archive.html   (610 words)

  
 Brit-Am Now 290
Advancing along this line of thought the Hallstatt tradition is generally seen as a further development of what may be described as an early form of the Gallic Culture, with later expressions typified by the Latene tradition.
Although utilizing differing avenues, I believe this is the same basic argument presented as the Nordwestblock theory as provided by Hans Kuhns, and critical evaluations by W. Meid, and Eric Hamp.
While this construct focuses more one identifying non-Indo-European survivals in Celt Languages.
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“mistreat” Nordwestblock tu:kian (tukian ?) id. Old English tuck, touk id. Middle English zoche “club” Middle High German FTIG 21: *tuk-, *tukk- “pull, tug at, shake, torment” Nordwestblock zochen “tug at, shake” Middle High German tucken id. Middle English tucken id. Middle Dutch tucken id. Middle Low German zucken, zücken?
id. German FTIG 22: *twakk-, *twikk- Nordwestblock zwacken “pinch; annoy” German zwicken “pinch; torment” German zweck, zwick “pin, small nail” Middle High German TP: a-, i-infix?
Latin te-tago:n “grasping” Greek FTIG 24: *tang- “reaching to smt., touching it” Nordwestblock ge-tang Old English ge-tenge also “oppressing” Old English gader-tang, -teng Old English ge-tang Old English bi-tengi also “oppressing” Old Saxon gi-zengi Old English adv.: ge-tangr Old English sam-tenges (-tinges) Old English gi-zengo Old High German con-tiguus (
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 Usenet Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One is Hans Kuhn's Nordwestblock, the > > presumed group of IE-speakers located between Celts and Germans, with > > neither the Celtic loss of initial /p/ nor the Germanic consonant-shift.
Some scholars scoff at the > > Nordwestblock, but it provides the only plausible etymology I have seen > > Then I trust you won't scoff at Hamp's "Hellenic" and "Cimmerian" IE > substrata in Greek and Slavic respectively.
I'm certainly not scoffing at his "Cimmerian", which I know nothing about, but I think the derivation of
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