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Expand: On the details in the book concerning Geto-Dacians

'those people have to be considered Germans because they have homes, wear shields and like to travel' Makes more sense if you change it to: 'those people have to be considered Germans because they have homes, wear shields and like to travel by foot' as he's showing the difference between the sarmatians (steppe nomads), who fight and travel almost always on horseback. The same about houses and about wearing shield. Not sure what the fact that it contributes little to ethnicographics studies really belongs here. He's definately saying that they are similar to germans ans sarmatians. But that he classifies them as germans because of their culture. Change hasn't been committed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.149 (talk) 16:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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He is also to blame for the misnaming of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, which did not quite take place in the saltus Teutoburgiensis, as he claimed in the Germania.

This is misleading insofar as is is not known where the forest Tacitus called saltus Teutoburgiensis was located; the forest that is called Teutoburg Forest today was given that name in the 19th century when it was believed by some historians to be where the battle took place. -- Ferkelparade π 15:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Map

The map lists the Venedes as a Germanic tribe, while they were actually proto-Slavs. The trained eye will recognise here the thin edge of an ethnic game that has been going for a long time, both in "scholarly" debates and on the battlefield. Moreover, there is hardly any ground to regard the source of the image, lacking any academic credential, as reliable. L'omo del batocio 13:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

sorry, but what are you talking about. The map lists the Venedes because Tacitus lists the Venedes. If you think this is an "ethnic game", please complain to the author. I don't know if hte Venedes were "proto-Slavs" (and neither do you, or anybody), but we know for a fact that Tacitus did not list them as "proto-Slavs". --dab (𒁳) 13:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Germania (Tacitus)

The usual Wikipedia title to this would be Germania (Tacitus)--Wetman (talk) 21:35, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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[edit] Germania (Tacitus)

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