Charudes is the scholarly Latinization of an ethnic identity known in Ptolemy as the Charoudes. They are stated (Book 2, Chapter 10) to have lived on the east side of the Cimbric Chersonese, Ptolemy's term for Jutland. Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the mainland part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ...

The Charoudes are believed to be the home population of an earlier unit of 24,000 military Harudes, who crossed the Rhine under the command of Ariovistus (Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 31, 37 and 51), but no evidence connects the two. In Caesar, Ariovistus had been petitioned by the Celtic Sequani for assistance in their war against the Celtic Aedui. In return, Ariovistus was promised land grants, although exactly where is not certain. Ariovistus was king of the germanic tribe of the Suebis, as described in Julius Caesars The Gallic Wars. ... Jump to: navigation, search Painting of Gaius Julius Caesar Bust of Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ... De Bello Gallico (literally On the Gallic Wars in Latin) is an account written by Julius Caesar about his nine years of war in Gaul. ... Sequani, in ancient geography, were a Celtic people who occupied the upper basin of the Arar (Saone), their territory corresponding to Franche-Comte and part of Burgundy. ... Aedui, Haedui or Hedui (Gr. ...

In any case, gathering forces from a wide area of Germany, Ariovistus crossed the Rhine with large numbers and defeated the Aedui. The Germanics, however, had their own agenda. They were interested in resettling large tracts of Celtic country, among both the Sequani and the Aedui. The Celts appealed to Caesar. Romans and Germanics raced to the strategic fortified city of Vesontio (Besançon), but the Romans arrived first and occupied the city. They met and routed the Germanic army in the land between the city and river, effecting a massacre as the Germanics tried to escape over the river, in 58 BC. The fate of the 24,000 Harudes is not known. Jump to: navigation, search At 1,320 km (820 miles), the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein) is one of the longest rivers in Europe. ... Location within France Besançon is a French city in the département of Doubs, of which it is the préfecture. ...

Some Harudes in Germania must have survived, as they continued to trouble the Romans in the reign of Augustus, the first emperor (if you do not count Julius). We have some documentary evidence that they did exist: the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, "Deeds of the Divine Augustus". In this long inscription, the Charydes of Jutland are said to have petitioned the friendship of Rome. Augustus (plural Augusti) is Latin for majestic or venerable. The greek equivalent is sebastos, or a mere grecization (by changing of the ending) augustos. ... Res Gestae Divi Augusti, (Latin: The Deeds of the Divine Augustus) is the funerary inscription of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, giving a first-person record of his life and accomplishments. ...

During the later age of Germanic migrations, the Harudes do not appear in Jutland. Instead, the Angles and Jutes are there, who migrate to Britain. In Tacitus the Angles are further south. The Harudes could have been a constituent of the Jutes: Hardsyssel is thought to be derived from Harudes.

There is a better explanation, however. The Angles were probably occupying territory adandoned by the Harudes, as the latter migrated into Norway. There they are believed to be the Horder people who settled in Hordaland and are responsible for the name Hardanger. Hordaland is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. ... For other uses: see Hardanger (disambiguation). ...

If the latter connection is true, the name goes on to acquire a conspicuous pedigree. As an ethnic name it changes to Hardingar, which also becomes a family name, Harding. In the 9th century, King Harding rules over the independent kingdom of Hardanger. Vikings depart from there to the Danelaw in Anglo-Saxon Britain via Scotland. Their Anglo-Saxon name is Heardingas. From Hardanger they also sail to Iceland, where they became the Haddings. In German mythology, the name is Hartung. And finally, the name comes into the modern English-speaking world as Harding. The Danelaw (from the Old English Dena lagu) was an area of England under the administrative control of the Vikings (or Danes, or Norsemen) from the late 9th century. ... East Dane is an Anglo-Saxon ethnonym which was used in the epic Beowulf as a kenning for the Geats, the people of G taland in southern Sweden. ... Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was the 29th (1921-1923) President of the United States and the sixth President to die in office. ...