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The Lombards ( Latin Langobardi , whence the alternative names Langobards and Longobards ) were a Germanic people originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the ...
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The Langobards (or Lombards) were a Germanic tribe that began in southern Sweden and worked their way down into Italy by the 6th century. There they established permanent German ...
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Encyclopedia Lombards. Lombards (lom'b u rdz, –bärdz) , ancient Germanic people. By the 1st cent. A.D. the Lombards were settled along the lower Elbe.

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Lombards, Germanic people, originally settled along the lower Elbe River, who invaded and conquered northern and central Italy between 568 and 572. In 572 the chief of the Lombards, Alboin, founded the kingdom of Lombardy. The Lombards were gradually converted to Christianity, adopted the Latin language, and were assimilated by the inhabitants of the land. The Lombard dynasty was overthrown in 774 by Charlemagne.

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