Tacitus, writing around 100 AD when the region had been part of the Roman Empire, referred to these Germani next, saying that they were by his time called the Tungri. The "Germani" name had by this time become a term used more commonly to refer to many other peoples.

Name and terminology

Starting with Caesar, Roman historians described the Rhine as an important natural border between Gaul on the

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