Alemanni (Aleman`ni) , a confederacy of tribes which appeared on the banks of the Rhine in the 3rd cent., and for long gave no small trouble to Rome, but whose incursions were arrested, first by Maximinus, and finally by Clovis in 496, who made them subject to the Franks, hence the modern names in French for Germany and the Germans.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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