User:Daanschr/ Historical maps/ Cananefates



The Cananefates were a Germanic tribe that lived in the Rhine delta at my home. Before the Cananefates, the area had a very small population and it is very hard to determine who was living here. The first humans in Europe came here more than a million years ago. They were supplanted some 30,000 years ago by modern humans. The Indo-European languages entered between 3000 BC and 1000 BC, the Corded Ware culture played a great role in the westward expansion of these languages. The Proto-Celtic Indo-Europeans dominated the area in the late 2nd millenium BC and the early 1st Millenium BC. The Celts took the region in the 1st Millenium BC. The Germanic peoples entered circa 250 BC and probably mixed with Celtic tribes.

The Cananefates came here in 38 BC. They were split from the Chatti who were defeated in 39 BC-38 BC by the Roman governor Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa of Transalpine Gaul. The Cananefates and their neighbours, the Batavians were forcefully removed from their Chatti homelands in the central Rhine area towards the Rhine Delta after the Roman victory. Though, technically part of the Roman Empire, they were not subdued yet, only resettled.