Tungri

The Tungerer (also Tungrer, Tungern, latin Tungri or Tongri ) are a Germanic tribe on the Lower Rhine, on the left bank of the Rhine in the area in Tongeren ( Aduatuca Tungrorum, 15 founded in BC as a Roman town ) north of Liege on changed.

Background

Probably long before the beginning of the conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar (58 BC) crossed the Rhine Germans and mingled with the living there probably for about 300 years the Celts. Five German tribes west of the Rhine ( Condrusi, Eburones, Caerosi, Paemani, qui uno nomine Germani appellantur ), as well as the Segner, were called by Caesar ( Gall.II, 4.10 and VI, 32.1 ) as an ethnic units by name. The Eburons were 54/53 BC largely exterminated during the Gallic War. Your country reported the Romans then the Sunukern and Tungern. The territory of the province of Gallia Belgica Tungri belonged to, since the end of the 1st century AD Germania Inferior.

Tacitus wrote in his book Germania:

Swell

• Tacitus, Germania 2
• Caesar, De bello Gallico IV, 6.4