EAST Germanic Tribes

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The expansion of the Germanic tribes 750 BC – AD 1 (after the Penguin Atlas of World History 1988):


      RED - Settlements before 750BC
 
      ORANGE - New settlements until 500BC
 
      YELLOW - New settlements until 250BC
 
      GREEN - New settlements until AD 1








                                                         East Germanic tribes





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The Germanic tribes referred to as East Germanic constitute a wave of migrants who may have moved from Scandinavia into the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers between 600 - 300 BC. Later they went to the south.

The east Germanic tribes, related to the North Germanic tribes, had migrated from Scandinavia into the region east of the Elbe (Vandals, Burgundians, Goths, Rugians and others).

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                                                           Groups





Groups identified as East Germanic tribes include:



Bastarnae

Burgundians

Goths

Thervings

Greuthungs
 
Visigoths
 
Ostrogoths
 
Crimean Goths
 
Rugians

Scirii

Vandals

Gepids

Heruli

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Pre Migration Age

Territories inhabited by East Germanic tribes
between 100 BC and AD 300.







Language





The East Germanic languages are contrasted with North and West Germanic. However, the East Germanic languages shared many characteristics with North Germanic, perhaps because of the later migration date.

All the East Germanic languages are extinct as living languages. However, there have been recent attempts by Germanic tribal polytheists to reconstruct a form of neo-Gothic as a common community language.

This is primarily based on the academic publications of a small number of scholars who have studied what remains of the written records of the Gothic dialects within Italia, the Iberian peninsula, and old Anatolia. Whether their efforts will succeed has yet to be proven conclusively since the reconstruction of elder Germanic tribal belief systems is a rather young research field, dating by most accounts to the last quarter of the 19th century

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See also



Ancient Germanic culture Portal

North Germanic tribes

West Germanic tribes






Notes and references



^ The Penguin atlas of world history / Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann ; translated by Ernest A. Menze ; with maps designed by Harald and Ruth Bukor. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051054-0 1988, Volume 1. p.109.

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