Germania

Germania was a Roman name originally given to a tribe of people who lived along the Rhine River.^[1] They were a Teutonic people, who were first mentioned in the 4th century BC.^[1] The Gauls changed it from a name for a people to the name for the territory.^[2] This was a vast forested wilderness to the north that Rome knew very little about.^[1] It ran from the west on the River Rhenus (Rhine) to the east and the Carpathian Mountains and the River Vistula.^[3] On the north it was bounded by the North Sea and on the south by the River Hister (Danube).^[3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "The Ambush That Changed History". Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
2. ↑ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Volume 1, ed. Sir William Smith (London, John Murray, 1872), pp. 992–993
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Germania". The Latin Library. Retrieved 18 September 2016.