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The
Germanic tribes referred to as 'East Germanic' constitute a wave of
migrants who may have moved from
Scandinavia into the area between the
Oder and
Vistula rivers between
600 -
300 BC. Later they went to the south.
The east Germanic tribes, related to the
North Germanic tribes, had migrated from
Scandinavia into the region east of the
Elbe (
Vandals,
Burgundians,
Goths,
Rugians and others).
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Groups
Groups identified as East Germanic tribes include:
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Bastarnae
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Burgundians
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Goths
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Thervings
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Greuthungs
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Visigoths
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Ostrogoths
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Crimean Goths
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Rugians
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Scirii
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Vandals
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Gepids
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Heruli

Territories inhabited by East Germanic tribes between 100 BC and AD 300.
Language
The East Germanic languages are contrasted with
North and
West Germanic. However, the East Germanic languages shared many characteristics with
North Germanic, perhaps because of the later migration date. All the East Germanic languages are extinct as living languages. However, there have been recent attempts by Germanic tribal polytheists to reconstruct a form of neo-Gothic as a common community language. This is primarily based on the academic publications of a small number of scholars who have studied what remains of the written records of the Gothic dialects within Italia, the Iberian peninsula, and old Anatolia. Whether their efforts will succeed has yet to be proven conclusively since the reconstruction of elder Germanic tribal belief systems is a rather young research field, dating by most accounts to the last quarter of the 19th century.
See also
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North Germanic tribes
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West Germanic tribes
Notes and references
1. The Penguin atlas of world history / Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann ; translated by Ernest A. Menze ; with maps designed by Harald and Ruth Bukor. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051054-0 1988, Volume 1. p.109.