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Alamanni (disambiguation)

Alamanni may refer to:

  • Alemanni, a confederation of Suebian Germanic tribes in the Roman period
  • Alamanni (surname)
Alamanni (surname)

Alamanni is an Italian surname. It is one of many Italian names which are derived from placenames, in this case, Germany.

  • Niccolò Alamanni, 16th-century Roman antiquary
  • Luigi Alamanni, 16th-century Italian poet and statesman

Usage examples of "alamanni".

The Alamanni are nomads, who have never planted farms or vineyards or even homesteads.

I kept wishing that I would come across one of those wandering bands of Alamanni, who might let me join them and share in their hunts and learn how to live and thrive as a nomad.

I came upon evidence that the Alamanni had passed that way before me, but not recently.

And the native Alamanni, though fond of combat, are disinclined to suicide.

And true, if Wyrd and I had been a lengthy merchant train or a foreign army on the march, the Alamanni would have regarded us as intruders, and attacked and looted us, and either killed or enslaved us.

Although Alamanni tribes wander about Noricum, too, there are also small settlements of Roman colonists whose ancestors emigrated from Italia, mainly because there is much iron in the ground here, and the Noricans prosper by making the fine Noric steel that Rome buys for making weapons.

In the year 486 he went forth to fight his barbarian neighbours in the south-east, the Alamanni, The battle was a stubborn and a bloody one, as well it might be when two such thunder-clouds met, the savage Frank and the savage Alaman.

After that, our forces had been fully engaged with incursions of Franks and Alamanni in the east, and slave rebellions in the west of Gallia, with no time to worry about Britannia.

It used to be thought that these letters must be referred to 496, the year of the celebrated victory of Clovis over the Alamanni, commonly, but incorrectly, called the battle of Tulbiacum.

Clovis against the Alamanni, referred to in this letter, is not mentioned by Gregory of Tours.

Burgundians, and the ravages of the Alamanni in the Province of Liguria.

The saint complained that certain Alamanni, Bavarians, and Franks refused to give up various heathen practices because they had seen such things done in the sacred city of Rome, close to St.

In consequence of wars against the Alamanni, in which the latter had the advantage, the Burgundians, after having taken part in the great invasion of Radagaisus in 407, were obliged in 411 to take refuge in Gaul, under the leadership of their chief Gundicar.