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La Tene and Roman BavariaThe Alemanni - Applying to both southern Germany and Switzerland is the migration ofthe Alemanni south into Baden-Wurttemberg and much of Switzerland. The nameAlemanni means “all men”. They appear to have possible connections to other“Germanic” tribes such as the Marcomanni, Hermanduri, and Quadi. These groups mayhave emerged out of the Celtic lands in Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria and regions ofnearby Czech Republic and Austria. Although the Rhine was simplistically thought of asthe division between the Celtic and Germanic peoples, it is evident that, in reality thesituation was far more fluid. In the middle of the first century BC the tribes on both sidesof the river were very mixed and it is unlikely that rigid ethnic differences could berecognized (Cunliffe, 1999, p.427). In discussing how the Romans repelled the invasionof Gaul when Arovistus of the Senones crossed the Rhine in 70 BC, Allen (2007) notes,Further east, Celtic Thuringia seems to have remained unaffected for almost anothercentury (p.198). Perhaps it is more realistic to state that in the years approaching thedestruction of the Roman Empire, the mixed Germanic – Celtic peoples of the areabrought their culture south and west in successive waves, although the genetic structureof the population may have changed little from the Hallstattt and La Tene times.32