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TheGambrivii were aGermanic people (Latin:Germani) mentioned in passing by two authors in the first century AD. Little is known about them apart from their name.
They are first mentioned byStrabo, a Greek author, in hisGeographica, written in about 23 AD, as theΓαμαβρίουιοι (Gamabríuioi).[1] He categorized them as being in the same group of more settled Germanic peoples as theChatti, theChattuari and theCherusci. This group were distinguished from the group of Germanic peoples who migrated with ease like nomads, such as theSuebi, and on the other hand from the other settled Germanic peoples who he described as living near the ocean, "theSugambri, the Chaubi, theBructeri, and theCimbri, and also theCauci, the Caülci, the Campsiani, and several others". Several of the names in this list appear in no other record.
TheGambrivii are also mentioned byTacitus in hisGermania.[2] He lists them with theMarsi,Suebi andVandilii as peoples who some (quidam) claimed should be added to the list of the genuine old names of Germanic peoples mentioned in old Germanic songs, who stemmed from the original descendants of the legendary Germanic ancestor namedMannus. (According to Tacitus, the old songs themselves described the original divisions of theGermani as theIngaevones,Herminones andIstaevones.)
The Gambrivii are sometimes associated with theSicambri (also spelled as "Sugambri"), whose name appears to contain some of the same elements.
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