Romano-Germanic culture

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This article covers the culture of Romanized Germanic peoples. For the political history of the medieval Roman Empire of the German Nation, see: Holy Roman Empire.

The term Romano-Germanic describes the conflation of Roman culture with that of various Germanic peoples under the rule of the Roman Empire. It is also sometimes used to describe Germanic kingdoms that were established upon territories previously, either wholly or in part, under Roman jurisdiction, such as the Kingdoms of the Visigoths (Terraconensis, Lusitania, Baetica), the Ostrogoths (Italia, Sicilia, Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia) and the Franks (Narbonensis, Aquitania, Lugdunensis, Belgica, Germania Superior, Germania Inferior and parts of the previously unconquered Germania Magna).

Scholar Norman Cantor uses the term to define the general culture of Western Europe, having both Roman and Germanic roots.

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Eduard I. Kolcjinsky, "Nikolaj Jakovlevich Danilevsky", in Encyclopedia of Anthropology ed. H. James Birx (2006, SAGE Publications; ISBN 0-7619-3029-9)