Alamanni

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

The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were a group of west Germanic peoples. They lived around the upper Main, which is the longest tributary of the Rhine. They expanded their territory around parts of Germania and present-day Alsace. The land they lived on was called Alemannia.

Other use

• Alemannic German

Alamanni Media

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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 gold bracteate of Pliezhausen (sixth or seventh century) shows typical iconography of the pagan period. The bracteate depicts the "horse-stabber underhoof" scene, a supine warrior stabbing a horse while it runs over him. The scene is adapted from Roman era gravestones of the region.

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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.