However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.

It ’ s the most obvious demonstration of two tribes that we have today.

Accordingly we find that Severus, in narrating the division of Canaan among the tribes, calls the special attention of ecclesiastics to the fact that no portion of the land was assigned to the tribe of Levi, lest they should be hindered in their service of God.

For knowledge of the internal composition of the Kingdom of Mercia, we must rely on a document of uncertain age ( possibly late 7th century ), known as the Tribal Hidage – an assessment of the extent ( but not the location ) of land owned ( reckoned in hides ), and therefore the military obligations and perhaps taxes due, by each of the Mercian tribes and subject kingdoms by name.

According to Jewish legend, Balaam was made this powerful in order to prevent the non-Jewish tribes from saying: " If we had only had our own Moses, we would be as pious as the Jews.

The citizens were divided, as we learn from Diodorus, into ten tribes, the names of which sufficiently indicate their origin.

Even when we remember the very free standard of sex morals in the Melanesian tribes of New Guinea, such as the Motu or the Mailu, we still find these natives exceedingly loose in such matters.

Here we shall write and we shall begin the old stories, the beginning and the origin of all that was done in the town of the Quiché, by the tribes of the Quiché nation.

It seems clear that he had a peculiar gift for evoking the enthusiasm of the native tribes, and we can understand well how he was able to use the famous white fawn, a present from one of the natives that was supposed to communicate to him the advice of the goddess Diana, to his advantage.

The first certain knowledge we have of the Dhegiha is 1673 when the French explorer of the Mississippi River, Pere Marquette, drew a crude map which showed the Dhegiha tribes near their historic locations.

Three weeks later, Salisbury delivered a speech at Scarborough, where he denied that " the word " black " necessarily implies any contemptuous denunciation: " Such a doctrine seems to be a scathing insult to a very large proportion of the human race … The people whom we have been fighting at Suakim, and whom we have happily conquered, are among the finest tribes in the world, and many of them are as black as my hat ".

Tecumseh knew that this would remove all protection from the tribes in the confederation whose lands lay to the west of Detroit and attempted to dissuade Procter, saying: Our fleet has gone out, we know they have fought ; we have heard the great guns but know nothing of what has happened to our Father with one Arm who had lost an arm in 1809.

Russell wrote: " the present alarming aspect of affairs-when we are threatened with an invasion by the French and Spaniards from the Mississippi, and the information we have received of emissaries being dispersed among the Indian tribes to incite them to take up the hatchet against the King's subjects.

Both are ethnically and linguistically diverse, with a substrate of Agtas, Negritos who are food-gatherers with no fixed abode, overlaid by Ilongots and others in a number of tribes, some of whom were fierce head-hunters ( we are firmly assured that they have given up the practice ), with the latest but largest element of the population being Ilocanos.

I think that all the means available to wreck tribes must be used, barring those that the human kind and the right of nations condemn. I personally believe that the laws of war enable us to ravage the country and that we must do so either by destroying the crops at harvest time or any time by making fast forays also known as raids the aim of which it to get hold of men or flocks.

Since we have no direct documentation about the Slavonic tribes and their names or their political organization between the 6th and 7th centuries, furthermore, because we don't have any concrete records from the following 150 years long period, there is no historical evidence to suppose or to prove any connection between Samo's kingdom and the ethnogenesis of the Slovaks.

Thucydides stated that one of the three original tribes of Sicily, the Sicani, were of Iberian origin, though " Iberian " at the time could have included what we think of as Gaul.

The Chilean Patagonia located south of the river " calle calle " in Valdivia was composed of many tribes, mainly Tehuelches that were consider giants by Spaniards during Magellan voyage of 1520.

Similarly, the consolidated Teutonic laws of the Germanic tribes, included a complex system of monetary compensations for what courts would consider the complete range of criminal offences against the person, from murder down.

To be sure, Rousseau praises the newly discovered " savage " tribes ( whom Rousseau does not consider in a " state of nature "), as living a life that is simpler and more egalitarian than that of the Europeans ; and he sometimes praises this " third stage " it in terms that could be confused with the romantic primitivism fashionable in his times.

Some researchers, while admitting the differences between the dialects spoken by East Slavic tribes in the 10th and 11th centuries, still consider them as " regional manifestations of a common language " ( see, for instance, the article by Vasyl Nimchuk ).

The Samaritans consider themselves ( and some biblical scholars consider them ) to be the remaining population of the Northern Kingdom of Israel who were not exiled during the ten tribes exile and who joined with the exiled people that the Assyrians brought into the land instead of the exiled Israelite population ( such as the people of Kutha ), forming the Samaritan community.

These traders brought their goods in sacks slung across their backs and this sack may have evolved into Kokopelli's familiar hump ; some tribes consider Kokopelli to have been a trader.

Both the Hopi and Zuni Indian tribes still consider Casa Malpais a sacred ancestral place.

While they considered themselves to have a separate identity from other local tribes, modern scholars consider them to be a part of the Ohlone or Costanoan tribes that inhabited the Bay Area.

Some schools of British Israelism consider that most nations of western and Northern Europe are tribes of Israel.

These tribes have lived since time immemorial, around the mountain that they also consider as sacred ground, their place of worship and burial ground of Apo Sandawa, their great forefather.

The new location was intended to be more accessible to travelers, but the tribes consider it temporary until their proposed Columbia River Gorge casino can be built.

" Ahlamû-Aramaeans " would consider the Arameans as an important and in time dominant faction of the Ahlamû tribes, however it is possible that the two peoples had nothing in common, but operated in the same area.

The Ska preserve a language and culture dating back to the last Ice Age and, believing that all other races and tribes of humans had interbred with Neanderthals, consider themselves superior as the only pure human race.

The United States Congress authorized construction of observatories on the mountain in 1988, but there has been outcry from the four federally recognized tribes of the Western Apache Nation and Native American groups, who consider the site to be sacred.

In the Savage Land, some territories are populated by several human or humanoid tribes, and while most of them are on friendly terms with Ka-Zar, some of them consider him an outlander and an enemy.

By extension, some scholars consider that the Halh had a close connection with the Five Ulus of the Left Wing of the former Yuan Dynasty, which was led by the five powerful tribes of Jalayir, Onggirat, Ikires, Uruud and Mangghud.

Although many Indian tribes did not consider strict ' blood ' descent the only way to determine if a person was a member of a tribe, the Dawes Commission did.

However, most mainstream historians consider them as a group of nomadic tribes from Central Asia with mixed origin.

The two tribes consider themselves to be brothers and sisters.

1960 in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology consider the Bellerophontidae a very large family made up of a number of subfamilies and tribes.

European Americans once used the term " Eskimo " for those groups, but this term is in disfavor because the people consider it derogatory ; it was adopted from the exonym Eskimo used by the competing Algonquian-speaking tribes of the northern tier.

On the Germanic tribes, the Roman historian Tacitus writes the following: " They don't consider it mighty enough for the Heavens to depict Gods on walls or to display them in some human shape .".

And according to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes.

Meanwhile, several Germanic tribes were converted to Arian Christianity by the missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible into the Gothic language.

From 335 to 336, Constantine, continuing his Danube campaign, defeated many Gothic tribes.

* Second Gothic invasion: The Goths and other German tribes attack Bosphorean towns on the coast of the Black Sea.

However devastating the defeat, the battle did not entirely break the Gothic tribes ' military strength.

* Spring – Emperor Valens crosses the Danube at Noviodunum ( Romania ), and attacks the Gothic tribes ( Greuthungi and Tervingi ).

In Moesia, Gallus was a key figure in repelling the frequent invasion attacks by the Gothic tribes of the Danube and became popular with the army, catered to during his brief Imperial rule by his official image: military haircut, gladiatorial physique, intimidating stance ( illustration, left ).

From the beginning of Herennius ' accession, Gothic tribes raided across the Danube frontier and the provinces of Moesia and Dacia.

Halm took as his points of departure ancient reports that Germanic tribes in general were reported to have distributed conquered lands by having members draw lots, and that Iberia during the period of Visigothic rule was sometimes known to outsiders by a Latin name, Gothica Sors, whose meaning is ' Gothic lot '.

A smaller number of legions meant less secure borders and eventually raids from the Germanic and Gothic tribes against the Rhine and the Danube became more frequent.

With the disintegration of the Roman Empire, Gothic and Hunnic tribes raided the Balkan peninsula, making many Illyrians seek refuge in the highlands.

Renaissance authors believed that the Sack of Rome by the Gothic tribes in 410 had triggered the demise of the Classical world and all the values they held dear.

A contemporary reports that the Hunnic Empire had a " Hunnic language ", or " Hunnish ", which was spoken alongside Gothic and the languages of other tribes subjugated by the Huns

The bays have two narrow Gothic windows on the sides, for a total of twelve, again representing the twelve tribes.

The period is usually considered to open with those migrations of the German Tribes which led to the destruction of the Roman Empire in the West in 375, when the Huns fell upon the Gothic tribes north of the Black Sea and forced the Visigoths over the boundaries of the Roman Empire on the lower Danube.

Archaeological evidence of the Crimean Goths in CrimeaCrimean Goths were those Gothic tribes who remained in the lands around the Black Sea, especially in Crimea.

Though most scholars agree the peoples must have been of Gothic origin, some others have maintained that the so called " Crimean Goths " were in fact West or even North Germanic tribes who settled in the Crimea, culturally and linguistically influenced by the Ostrogoths

:" the true hereditary right to the Gothic sceptre was vested in the Amali ; but those princes, who were the vassals of the Huns, commanded the tribes of the Ostrogoths in some distant parts of Germany or Scythia.

In 376, with the outbreak of the Gothic War, Farnobius led his people across the Danube from Muntenia, and poured into Moesia Secunda, together with two other Greuthungi tribes, led by Alatheus and Saphrax.