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The Paemani (or Poemani or Caemani) were a tribe of Gallia Belgica, mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary of his Gallic Wars. They were one of a group of tribes listed by his local Remi informants as the ''Germani'', along with the Eburones, Condrusi, Caeraesi (or Caeroesi), and Segni.〔Julius Caesar, ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'' 2.4 and 6.32〕 These tribes are therefore referred to as the "''Germani Cisrhenani''", to distinguish them from Germani living on the east of the Rhine, outside of the Gaulish and Roman area. Whether this meant that they actually spoke a Germanic language or not, is still uncertain, but it was claimed by Tacitus that these Germani were the original ''Germani'', and that the term ''Germani'' had come to be used broadly, having once only referred to this one people. He also said that the descendants of the original ''Germani'' in his time were the Tungri, who had changed their name.〔Tacitus, ''Germania'', (II 2 ). ceterum Germaniae vocabulum recens et nuper additum, quoniamqui primi Rhenum transgressi Gallos expulerint ac nunc Tungri, tunc Germani vocati sint: ita nationis nomen, nongentis, evaluisse paulatim, ut omnes primum a victore obmetum, mox et a se ipsis invento nomine Germani vocarentur.〕 The Paemani are frequently associated with the present-day Famenne region of central Wallonia.〔''Précis d'histoire liégeoise, par F. Magnette, Professeur à l'Université de Liège'' (1928), p. 16.〕 The proposal that the name Famenne itself derives from ''Paemani'' is no longer widely accepted, but the region is thought to be one reasonable proposal for where they lived.〔, page 31.〕 It has been argued that their name was actually the "Caemani".〔(Germanenprobleme in heutiger Sicht ) By Heinrich Beck, Kommission für die Altertumskunde Mittel- und Nordeuropas〕 This was the spelling found in a paraphrase of Caesar by Orosius. In later records, during the time of the Roman empire, the Paemani are no longer mentioned. But the previous area of the Paemani was on the southern reaches of the ''Civitas Tungrorum'', which was named after the larger tribal grouping called the Tungri, who, as mentioned above, according to Tacitus was a new name for the ''Germani'' described by Caesar. The old districts of the Condrusi and the Caeroesi are thought to have kept their names into the Middle Ages. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paemani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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