Germanic Wars

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Germanic Wars
Noreia - Arausio - Aquae Sextiae – Vercellae – Lupia River – Teutoburg Forest – Weser River

The Germanic Wars is a name given to a series of Wars between the Romans and various Germanic tribes between 113 BC and 439¹. The nature of these wars varied through time between Roman conquest, Germanic uprisings and later Germanic invasions of the Western Roman Empire often sponsored by the Eastern Roman Emperor².

[edit] See also,

• Cimbrian War, earlier Roman-Germanic war

[edit] References

• http://www.royalandnoble.com/History/Ancient%20History/germanromanwars.html
• The coming of the Germans, Lynn Harry Nelson, The University of Kansas, retrieved 2 January 2005 from http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/germanic_invasions.html