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English: The distribution of the primary Germanic dialect groups in Europe around AD 0-100:

North Germanic
North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic)
Weser-Rhine Germanic, (Istvaeonic)
Elbe Germanic (Irminonic)
East Germanic

Note 1: Colored areas denote cultural-linguistic areas which would, in the following centuries, diversify and grow apart. However, in 1 - 100 CE, mutual intelligibility would have still been very great between all groupings.
Note 2: Black line denotes the Roman border at the time of the Flavian dynasty. Spots indicate areas made uninhabitable or extremely sparsely populated during the time portrayed due to the presence of heavy forestation, moors/swamps and/or mountain ranges.
Note 3: Lighter-colored areas denote areas of either mixed settlement, such as between East-Germanic and Balto-Slavic peoples, or possible settlement, such as the Istvaeones within the Roman Empire or the Ingvaenes in Northern Denmark.

Date 8 January 2012

Source Based on Germanic Groups ca. 0CE.jpg by Varoon Arya (source used is König, Werner (2001). dtv-Atlas Deutsche Sprache. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2001. ISBN: 3-423-03025-9; pp. 46, 52.), The Indo-European Languages, A G Ramat, P Ramat. Taylor & Francis, 1998. ISBN 041506449X. A Culture Cycle from the Early and Middle Bronze Age. Jan Dobrowski. Archaeologia Polonia. XVI, 1975, Hansjörg Küster: Geschichte des Waldes. Von der Urzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Beck, Munich, 1998, and, The Early Germans, Malcolm Todd (2004).

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:20, 14 April 2022	2,067 × 2,312 (776 KB)	Mårtensås	Reverted to version as of 11:11, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
	15:18, 14 April 2022	2,067 × 2,312 (767 KB)	Mårtensås	Minor olor fix
	11:11, 11 January 2022	2,067 × 2,312 (776 KB)	Vlaemink	This map seems to show a situation closer to 400-600 CE than 1CE, according to Seebold (Seebold, Elmar (2003): Die Herkunft der Franken, Friesen und Sachsen) the Northsea Germanic territories at this point in time did not yet include the Northern Netherlands.
	15:43, 15 October 2018	2,067 × 2,312 (791 KB)	Ax quinque	Reverted to version as of 09:48, 4 May 2018 (UTC) Reverted to more detailed version of the map by AKAKIOS.
	11:30, 22 August 2018	419 × 431 (15 KB)	Shmurak	Reverted to stable version
	09:48, 4 May 2018	2,067 × 2,312 (791 KB)	E-960	Reverted to version as of 20:02, 5 December 2017 (UTC) The other map's boundaries look suspiciously like the boundaries of the Greater Third Reich (see talk page)
	11:12, 30 March 2018	419 × 431 (36 KB)	Til Eulenspiegel	Reverted to version as of 17:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC) used on 3 pages in am., we never wanted a new version, just make a new file instead of overwrite this one we use
	20:02, 5 December 2017	2,067 × 2,312 (791 KB)	AKAKIOS	Reverted to version as of 20:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Assuming good faith, while waiting on sources for claims.
	19:58, 5 December 2017	2,067 × 2,312 (816 KB)	AKAKIOS	Reverted to version as of 07:50, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
	17:44, 5 December 2017	419 × 431 (36 KB)	Thomas.W	Reverted to version as of 01:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC): Revert unsourced/OR with misleading claim about being sourced, the changes made can not be found in the image given as source