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The Burgundians were an East Germanic people who most likely lived at the Vistula river and migrated westwards during the Völkerwanderung, or Germanic migrations. Burgundians next lived in the Brandenburg-Berlin area (the area of the main tribe of the Suebi, the Semnoni) and gradually were pushed to the Rhineland.
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The Burgundians' tradition of Scandinavian origin finds support in place-name evidence and archaeological evidence (Stjerna) and many consider their tradition to be correct (e.g. Musset, p. 62). Possibly because Scandinavia was beyond the horizon of the earliest Roman sources, including Tacitus (who only mentions one Scandinavian tribe, the Suiones), they don't tell from where the Burgundians came, and the first Roman references place them east of the Rhine (inter alia, Ammianus Marcellinus, XVIII, 2, 15). Early Roman sources thought they were simply another East Germanic tribe.
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In the 5th century, a large group of Burgundians became Roman foederati, auxiliaries in the Roman army. They fought with Aetius and a confederation of other Germanic peoples in the defeat of Attila at the Catalaunian Fields (modern day Chalons)in 451. Later, they settled in Lugdunensis, known today as Lyons and an area that grew to include much of the Rhineland area around the city of Worms in Germany. They were spread over southwestern Gaul; that is, Northern Italy, Western Switerland, Eastern France.
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When attacking the Burgundians in Worms, the Romans have worked in alliance with a much more powerful group of barbarians. But these prove unreliable allies. They are the Huns, a non-Germanic group who for nearly two decades terrorize first the eastern and then the western Roman empire.
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The Germanic tribes were divided chiefly into Goths, Burgundians, Vandals, Alemanni, Bavarians, Langobards (Lombards), Franks, Angles, Saxons, and Frisians. The Gothic tribes (Visigoths and Ostrogoths) had been established along the shores of the lower Danube and the Black Sea for nearly 200 years.
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The ancient German tribe called the Burgunds or Burgundians or Burgundii, to use the Romans' term, are thought to have originated on the island of Bornholm (possibly Borgundholm) in modern Denmark, some emigrating between 150 and 100 BC. Their language was of the eastern German family, like that of the Goths. They are first mentioned in history by Pliny who reports that they lived between the Oder and Vistula Rivers. Apparently they defeated other Germanic tribes, including the Vandals. They in turn were defeated by the Goths and wound up in the Brandenburg area during the third and fourth centuries. Eventually they moved to the upper and middle Main River, coming into conflict with the Germanic Alemanni tribe as well as the Romans.
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