Alamanni facts for kids

The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were a band of west Germanic tribes. They lived around the upper Main, which is the longest tributary of the Rhine.

Images for kids

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  Area settled by the Alemanni, and sites of Roman-Alemannic battles, third to sixth centuries

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  Alamannia is shown beyond Silva Marciana (the Black Forest) in the Tabula Peutingeriana. Suevia is indicated separately, further downstream of the Rhine, beyond Silva Vosagus.

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  Alemannic belt mountings, from a seventh-century grave in the grave field at Weingarten

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  The Limes Germanicus 83 to 260 CE.

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  Europe at the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD.

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  Alemannia (yellow) and Upper Burgundy (green) around 1000.

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  The traditional distribution area of Western Upper German (Alemannic) dialect features in the 19th and 20th centuries

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  The seventh-century Gutenstein scabbard, found near Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, is a late testimony of pagan ritual in Alemannia, showing a warrior in ritual wolf costume, holding a ring-spatha.

See also

In Spanish: Pueblo alamán para niños