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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHERUSCI  , an

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

517 .

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