Sentences with phrase «germanic invaders»

Dug realises the only way to win the valley back is by challenging the Germanic invaders to their sacred, traditional game: football.

That achievement was part of the process of assimilating the Germanic invaders — Goths, Vandals, Lombards, and Burgundians — to Romanitas.

North Africa and parts of Italy and Spain were retaken from the Germanic invaders.

Although many were begun and drew much of their strength from the descendants of the Germanic invaders, in the former Roman realms these «barbarians» had been partly assimilated to the culture into which pre-Christian Roman and Christian elements had entered.

This was a landmark in the conversion of the Germanic invaders and other rulers followed Clovis» example.

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When we speak of Christianity, and of its importance to European cultural history, we commonly assume that Christianity belongs to European culture, that it is a part of that culture, an element among other elements: e.g., Jewish ethics, Greek democracy and philosophy, pagan sacrality, Roman law and organization, not to mention the customs of the Germanic, Slavic, and Hungarian tribes who were invaders.