Toxandri

Toxandri

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In the middle of the fourth century the Franks settled as foederati in Toxandria. It is not clear if the Toxandri were driven away or merged into the large west Germanic federation of the Franks. The last seems most likely.

References

* Pliny the Elder. The Natural History (eds. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. 1855) Book IV. An account of countries, nations, seas, towns, havens, mountains, rivers, distances, and peoples who now exist of formerly existed. Chap. 31. (17.) - Gallia Belgica. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&query=head%3D%23180]

ee also

* Germanic peoples
* List of Germanic peoples


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