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Teutonic


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DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631220398.2000.x


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The Teutoni or Teutones were a people from Jutland who, together with the Cimbri (see * Cimbrian ), moved southwards and westwards in the late 2nd c. BC and, in or about 110 BC, arrived in Gaul. In 102 BC they were defeated by the Romans in a battle near Aix-en-Provence in which they were virtually all killed or captured. Nothing remains of their language but, despite claims sometimes made that they were Celts, there is little doubt that they were a Germanic-speaking people. Their name was sometimes applied by Latin writers to Germanic peoples in general, whence the modern (but now unfashionable) use of the term ‘Teutonic languages’ as a synonym for ‘* Germanic languages’ . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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