The word German itself was not commonly used until, at around AD 100, the Roman historian Tacitus employed the term in a book and thus became godfather to the eventual nation.
Rome concluded that the German danger merited unprecedented attention and decided upon the eventual fortification of the border.Ĭonsequently, one cannot point to a definitive date on which the natives living north and east of the great rivers of the Danube, Elbe and Rhine became Germans. Learn how we and our ad partner Google, collect and use data. If you own the copyright to this book and it is wrongfully on our website, we offer a simple DMCA procedure to remove your content from our site.
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