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Confederations of Germanic Tribes - definition of Confederations of Germanic Tribes in Encyclopedia (279 words) |
 | 109 BC - Huge confederation composed of the Germanic of Cimbri and Teutoni and the Celtic-Germanic Helvetii formed near Miltenberg in Franconia. |
 | The confederation attempts an invasion of Italy but is defeated by Gaius Marius in the battles of Aquae Sextae (102 BC) and Vercellae (101 BC) |
 | 98 - Tacitus reports on the Germanic tribes that the Suiones (Swedes) were one nation composed of several tribes (civitates). |
| History of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7218 words) |
 | Between 1152 and 1190, during the reign of Frederick I (Barbarossa), of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, an accommodation was reached with the rival Guelph party by the grant of the duchy of Bavaria to Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony. |
 | The North German Confederation was a transitory group that existed from 1867 to 1871, between the dissolution of the German Confederation and the founding of the German Empire. |
 | The German government encouraged the population of the Ruhr to passive resistance: shops would not sell goods to the foreign soldiers, coal-mines would not dig for the foreign troops, trams in which members of the occupation army had taken seat would be left abandoned in the middle of the street. |