Nemetes
The Nemetes[1] were a tribe settled along the Upper Rhine by Ariovistus in the 1st century BC.Welsh maes 'field', Old Irish mag 'plain'),[3] as are those of several gods worshipped in their territory, including Nemetona, who is thought to have been their eponymous deity.[3][4] [5] In De Bello Gallico, Caesar writes that the Hercynian Forest "begins at the frontiers of the Helvetii, and Rauraci, and extends in a right line along the river Danube to the territories of the Daci and the Anartes".[6] Their territory on the left bank of the Rhine had belonged to the Mediomatrici during the time of Caesar and Strabo, but the Nemetes must have crossed the river and settled there sometime afterward.[12] The name of the Nemetes has been suggested, on contestable grounds,[13] as a possible source of the term for Germany and German people in Romanian: nemți/neamț, Hungarian: német(ek) and the Slavic languages (Russian: немцы nyemtsy, Ukrainian: німці nimtsi, Polish: Niemcy, Czech: Němci).
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