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| Origin and territory of the Germans in Central Europe, D.T.V. Atlas zur Weltgeschichte, Münich 1964 |
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| Here
is a map that is supposed to show the ethnogenesis of the Germans. The
main concern with this map is that the large area coloured in
orange-yellow, combined with the word "territory" in the title, could
imply that the ancient German tribes experienced some kind of political
organization and ”occupied” these lands in the modern sense of the
word.On the map, some elements do not appear: A) The majority of the described lands were uninhabitable: forests etc. B) Presumably other ancient populations were living in the same lands: Celts or mixed people predating the Slavic ethnogenesis C) The tribes mentioned on the map were continuously fighting or competing with each other.In fact, this map describes a supposed coherent group of entities even though there is no evidence to support this description. In fact this map describes a supposed coherent group of entities where there is no evidence for it. |
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