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Vor 2 Tagen · The continental Saxons, composed of many subgroups, were made tributary to the Franks, as were the Frisians, who faced an attack by the Danes under Hygelac in 533. The Vandal and Ostrogothic kingdoms were destroyed in 534 and 555 respectively by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire under Justinian.
Vor 5 Tagen · The victory at Tours secured Charles‘ reputation as the savior of Christendom and cemented his hold on power. In the years that followed, he undertook a series of campaigns to consolidate Frankish control over Western Europe, annexing Burgundy, subduing the Frisians and Saxons, and driving the Muslims out of Provence and Septimania ...
Pier Gerlofs Donia was born around 1480 in Kimswerd, a village near the city of Harlingen, in the region of Frisia, which today belongs to the Netherlands but then also encompassed parts of present-day Germany. His parents were Gerloff Piers and Fokel Sybrants Bonga, the latter the daughter of a local noble, and he had at least three siblings.
Vor 5 Tagen · Thus, among many other things, readers will learn that there were, in fact, no fewer than six main confessional blocs within Dutch Anabaptism by the 1590's - the Waterlanders, Old Frisians, Old Flemish, Young Frisians, Young Flemish and 'so called High Germans'; they will learn something of the size or importance of these blocs in relation to each other, to other religious groups, and to the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · They were farmers.” “Could be”, says Volkmar. “A Balt tribe called the Old Prussians originally lived in that area, with their own Indo-European language. However, when the Teutonic Knights conquered them, they were either killed if they resisted Christianisation, or assimilated if they accepted it. Their language died out in the 1700s ...
Vor 2 Tagen · They were however not able to identify any variations in Scandinavian ancestry among the Anglo Saxon immigrants concluding as follows: "If Saxons, Angles, and Jutes were meaningful biological categories that remained valid after the migration to England, then they were not correlated with varying degrees of ancestry from the Scandinavian Peninsula." Duncan Sayer, one of the authors of the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The German lands were the lands inhabited by those who spoke the German tongue; and ultimately, the definition of German-ness – with some outliers like the Dutch and Frisians as partial exceptions – rests in large part on language.
