Print of steel engraving titled „Anciens peuples Germains/Antiquos pueblos Germanos“.

Author Vernier.

Engraved by Montaut.

From „Historia de la Alemania por M. Ph. Le Bas. Traducida al castellano por Una sociedad literaria. Tomo primero. Barcelona. Imprenta del nacional. 1841“.

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic starting during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The term "Germanic" originated in classical times, when groups of tribes were referred to using this term by Roman authors. For them, the term was not necessarily based upon language, but rather referred to tribal groups and alliances who were considered less civilized, and more physically hardened, than the Celtic Gauls living in the region of modern France. Tribes referred to as Germanic in that period lived generally to the north and east of the Gauls.In modern times the term occasionally has been used to refer to ethnic groups who speak a Germanic language and/or claim ancestral and/or cultural connections to ancient Germanic peoples. Within this context, modern Germanic peoples include the Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Icelanders, Germans, Austrians, English, Dutch, Afrikaners, Flemish, Frisians, Scots language speakers and others.

Approx. image size 13, 9 x 9, 2/20, 2 x 12, 9 cm. Condition: good.