A GermanicReferring to an Indo-European ethnic group of people originating in northern Europe. The Roman Empire bordered on Germanic lands for centuries and the... more people who, in A.D. 443, were granted foederati (allied) status by the Western Roman Empire(27 B.C.) After a period of unrest and competing generals jockeying for power, Octavian, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, becomes the first official ... more and provided with lands in what is today the Savoy region where they established a Burgundian Kingdom. Their Arian Christianity put them at odds with the Pope in Rome.
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