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The Allemanni are a minor barbarian faction from in Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion.

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The forests of Germania have been the home of many warlike tribes for many centuries. These are lands that the Romans never managed to subdue. They remain beyond the borders of civilization. The Alemanni are one of the many tribes of this region who can be described as Germans, and were originally an off-shoot of the Suebi. They first came to the notice of the Romans in around 213 AD when they unsuccessfully attacked between the Elbe and Danube rivers. They have also made war upon their neighbours, the Franks, Saxons, Frisians and others, with mixed success.

Now, however, threats and opportunities are conspiring to make the Alemanni look beyond their borders once again. Nomadic peoples from the east are pushing against the more settled Germanic peoples. The weakness of Rome in the west is now becoming obvious: Emperor Julian, who beat the Alemanni in battle in 357, is dead and his successors are not as militarily skilled. The Roman world has split into two once more, and perhaps there are rich lands to be taken from the grasp of a dying empire...

Historically, the Alemanni crossed the frozen Rhine in 366 and occupied Roman territory. Eventually they settled in what would become modern-day southern Germany, Alsace and Switzerland. They also gave French and Spanish the word for German: Allemagne and Alemania.

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