Tungriとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Tungri were a Germanic tribe of Gaul and Germania. In a casual aside in Germania Tacitus remarks that Germani was the original tribal name of the Tungri with whom the Gauls were in contact; among the Gauls the term Germani came to be widely applied. The Sicambri were among the first to cross the Rhine into Roman territory and some of them were forced by Tiberius to settle among the Gauls (Atuatuci, Condrusi and Eburones) in Toxandria (Germania inferior) to eventually become Tungri, but Julius Caesar, the first to mention "Germani this side of the Rhine", does not mention the Tungri in his Gallic Wars. Pliny the Elder is the first writer to mention the Tungri, among the tribes in northeastern Gaul. At the time of Ptolemy's Geography they occupied the lands of the northern Arduenna Silva (Forest of Ardennes), along the lower valley of the Mosa (Meuse River). They were bordered to the north and east by Germanic tribes, but were bolstered by the Belgic Nervii on the west and by the Remi and Treveri to the south. Their tribal capital lay at Atuatuca, modern Tongeren in the Limburg province of Belgium. The Tungri may have absorbed survivors of the shattered Eburones and other disbanded rebellious Gauls formerly in the territory of the Tungri.