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n. (plural of barbarian English)
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Barbarians is a mini-series on The History Channel which tells the story of the most barbaric tribes of the early and late Middle Ages. Two series have currently been produced, each consisting of four episodes. This program tells about what the groups did, who they conquered, and how they fell. Clancy Brown narrated both seasons.
Tribes in Season 1
- The Goths
- The Mongols
- Attila and the Huns
- The Vikings
Tribes in Season 2
- The Vandals
- The Saxons
- The Lombards
- The Franks
Category:2000s American television miniseries Category:History (U.S. TV channel) original programs Category:American documentary television series Category:Medieval documentaries
Barbarians (Russian: Varvary) is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov, Ilya Sudakov and Konstantin Zubov. It is based on Maxim Gorky's play of the same name.
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From such laudable arts did the valor of the Imperial troops receive a degree of firmness and docility unattainable by the impetuous and irregular passions of barbarians.
Instead of being confined within the walls of fortified cities, which the Romans considered as the refuge of weakness or pusillanimity, the legions were encamped on the banks of the great rivers, and along the frontiers of the barbarians.
As far as the Barbarians trespassed within the Grecian boundary, or were necessarily mingled up with Grecian politics, they were admitted into the pale of Grecian history.
Whether he traces the progress of hostile religions, or leads from the shores of the Baltic, or the verge of the Chinese empire, the successive hosts of barbarians - though one wave has hardly burst and discharged itself, before another swells up and approaches - all is made to flow in the same direction, and the impression which each makes upon the tottering fabric of the Roman greatness, connects their distant movements, and measures the relative importance assigned to them in the panoramic history.
The experience of Augustus added weight to these salutary reflections, and effectually convinced him that, by the prudent vigor of his counsels, it would be easy to secure every concession which the safety or the dignity of Rome might require from the most formidable barbarians.
The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom.
By every honorable expedient they invited the friendship of the barbarians.
The fiercest barbarians frequently submitted their differences to the arbitration of the emperor.
The hostilities of the barbarians provoked the resentment of that philosophic monarch, and, in the prosecution of a just defence, Marcus and his generals obtained many signal victories, both on the Euphrates and on the Danube.
The use of lances and of iron maces they seem to have borrowed from the barbarians.
To all these we add the fleet which preserved the communication between Gaul and Britain, and a great number of vessels constantly maintained on the Rhine and Danube, to harass the country, or to intercept the passage of the barbarians.
Before Britain lost her freedom, the country was irregularly divided between thirty tribes of barbarians, of whom the most considerable were the Belgae in the West, the Brigantes in the North, the Silures in South Wales, and the Iceni in Norfolk and Suffolk.
The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honorable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians.
As soon as the barbarians were reconciled to obedience, their minds were open to any new impressions of knowledge and politeness.
The situation of the Greeks was very different from that of the barbarians.