Teutons
The term “let us teutons” (Proto-Germanic Þeudanōs , of which the German word Deutsch , German, drift also, as well as the French adjective “tudesque”) indicates Germanic people which could be different and whose generic name means our People . This word can indicate, is people which emigrated of the north of the Germanie and which plundered the Gaulle towards -100, that is to say tribes known in addition under the name of Alamans. It indicates moreover the teutonic knights.
The War of Cimbres
See also: War of Cimbres
In -113, with the Cimbres and the Ambrons, tribes of dubious origins but surely Celtic S and Germanic S, the Teutons is agitated and formed a threat increasingly larger for Rome. In -105, they gain a great victory over the Romains with Arausio (Orange) and enter in Spain, from where they are quickly expelled by the Celtibères.
Their invasion of the Gaules is stopped in -102 with large the battles of Aquæ Sextiæ (today Aix-en-Provence), by the Roman general Marius. The king of Teutons, Teutobod, is made there prisoner. It is told that the captive women committed suicide in mass.
Alamans
The Teutons are Western Germains gathered in tribes under the name of Alamans with the Hermundures (Hermions), the Juthunges, the Bucinobantes, the Lentiens, the Semmons, the Quades.
Modern meaning
In Slang, one designates by “the Teutons ” the German people. The pejorative Connotation is light.
See too
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