Nemetes
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The Nemetes or Nemeti (German: Nemeter) were a Western Germanic tribe living by the Rhine between the Palatinate and Lake Constance where Ariovistus had led them, the Suebi and other allied Germanic peoples in the second quarter of the 1st century BC. The Roman name Noviomagus Nemetum for the town of Speyer reflects this.
In De Bello Gallico, Caesar writes in Book VI 25,1: The Hercynian Forest begins in the area of the Helveti, Nemeti and Rauraci and stretches along the Danube to the areas of the Daci and Anarti). Tacitus (in Annals XII 27) considers the Nemeti as allies of Rome.
"Nemet" (or some variant thereof) has become the word for "German" in the Slavic and Hungarian languages.
