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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 85. Chapters: Germanic peoples, Huns, Goths, Lombards, Alans, Angles, Insular art, Early Germanic law, Turkic migration, Fibula, Elder Futhark, Chernyakhov culture, Volcae, Migration Period art, Hunnic Empire, Migration Period sword, Timeline of Germanic kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula, Bracteate, Turcilingi, Swastika, Romano-Germanic culture, Hea obards, Germanic Heroic Age, Vindelicia, Kiev culture, Tungri, Vendel era, Germanic Iron Age, Gothic, Grave orb. Excerpt: The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic in older literature) are a historical ethno-linguistic group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages, which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The descendants of these peoples became, and in many areas contributed to, ethnic groups in North Western Europe: Scandinavians (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Faroe Islanders, but not Finns and Sami), Germans (including Austrians, German-speaking Swiss, and other ethnic Germans), Dutch, Flemish, and English, among others. Migrating Germanic peoples spread throughout Europe in Late Antiquity (300-600) and the Early Middle Ages. Germanic languages became dominant along the Roman borders (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and England), but in the rest of the (western) Roman provinces, the Germanic immigrants adopted Latin (Romance) dialects. All Germanic peoples were eventually Christianized. Europe's Germanic peoples, such as the Franks, Saxons, Vandals, Angles, Lombards, Suebi, Burgundians and Goths, destroyed the Western Roman Empire, and transformed it into Medieval Europe. Today Germanic languages are spoken through much of the world, represented principally by English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages. A depiction on the 8th century CE Tj ngvide image...
