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CHERUSCI , an See also:ancient See also:German tribe occupying the See also:basin of the See also:Weser to the See also:north of the See also:Chatti . Together with the other tribes of western See also:Germany they submitted to the See also:Romans in 11—9 B.C., but in A.D . 9 See also:Arminius, one of their princes, See also:rose in revolt, and defeated and slew the See also:Roman See also:general Quintilius See also:Varna with his whole See also:army . Germanicus See also:Caesar made several unsuccessful attempts to bring them into subjection again . By the end of the 1st See also:century the See also:prestige of the Cherusci had declined through unsuccessful warfare with the Chatti . Their territory was eventually occupied by the See also:Saxons . See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, i . 2, II, 12, 13; Germania, 36; See also:Strabo, p . 291 f.; E . See also:Devrient, in Neue Jahrb. f. d. klass . Alter . (1900), p . 517 . |
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