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 migrated from southern Scandinavia over several centuries, eventually arriving in the Italian peninsula. They conquered the peninsula and established the Lombard Kingdom. By this time, the Lombards were mostly pagans or Arian Christians, generally putting them at odds with the Pope in Rome.
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