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Meanings of germanic people in English

Russian
древние германцы
Portuguese
tribos germânicas
Spanish
pueblos germanos
Catalan
tribus germàniques
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Peoples who are, or are related to, native speakers of a Germanic language.

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древние германцы
Usage of germanic people in English
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Runes are the characters of the alphabet of the early Germanic peoples.
Selections from Poe
2
The Germanic people were defeated in a great battle A.D. 179.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
3
The Germanic people fear God much more than the Latin people.
The Guardian
4
Franks, a Germanic people on the Rhine river, who afterward founded the French monarchy.
Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4
5
The Frankish conquests differed in two important respects from those of the other Germanic peoples.
Early European History
6
Charlemagne's conquests were not confined to Germanic peoples.
Early European History
7
What put these Germanic peoples on going South?
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
8
The Welsh are a Celtic people, having no relationship with the English, who are a Germanic people.
The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map o...
9
All this changes when the ancient world passes away and the Germanic peoples come upon the scene.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The third century saw the southward movement of the Germanic peoples, who took the place of the Celts.
The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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Considered as peoples simply, the Greeks or Romans were scarcely less capable of development than the Germanic peoples.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
12
The East Frankish kingdom of Louis, inhabited almost entirely by Germanic peoples, was to develop into modern Germany.
Early European History
13
Originally Celtic, the population was modified during the Roman period by the arrival of a Germanic people, the Triboci.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
14
Roman Catholicism not only spread to Celtic and Germanic peoples, but it also gained a foothold among the Slavs.
Early European History
15
After these, you will recall, came a number of Danes, another Germanic people, who settled the east coast of England.
The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map o...
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The interior and the north coast, on the other hand, were filled chiefly by Indo- Germanic peoples most nearly cognate to the Iranian.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution