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The Cherusci (German: Cherusker) were a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the northern Rhine valley and the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area between ...
Cherusci - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cherusci
A German people who occupied the Weser river basin, north of the Harz Forest. In AD 9 Arminius, a chief of the Cherusci, revolted and destroyed a Roman army commanded by Quintilius ...
Cherusci - LoveToKnow 1911
CHERUSCI, an ancient German tribe occupying the basin of the Weser to the north of the Chatti. Together with the other tribes of western Germany they submitted to the Romans in 11 ...

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Cherusci, Teutonic tribe that lived in what is now Germany. In a rebellion against Roman rule led by Arminius in ad 9 the Cherusci annihilated three Roman legions leading Roman governor Publius Quintilius Varus to commit suicide.

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Cherusci rebellion, see Arminius; Germanic Peoples

location of the battle where the Roman legions were defeated, see Lippe; Teutoburg Forest

later Roman battles against the Cherusci, see Germanicus Caesar; Schaumburg-Lippe; Tiberius: Military Service

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