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Barbarian travelers approaching a border checkpoint of the Roman Empire (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The Romans themselves would have called them something else.

In Ancient Rome, the Romans adapted and applied the term to tribal non-Romans such as the Germanics, Celts, Iberians, Helvetii, Thracians, Illyrians, and Sarmatians.

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