Alps

:This article is about the Alps in Europe. For other mountain ranges see Alps (disambiguation).

Political history

:Main article: Political history and modern state of the inhabitants of the Alps

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Little is known of the early dwellers in the Alps, save from the scanty accounts preserved by Roman and Greek historians and geographers. A few details have come down to us of the conquest of many of the Alpine tribes by Augustus.

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Roman - Greek - Historian - Geographer - Augustus

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The successive emigration and occupation of the Alpine region by various Teutonic tribes from the 5th to the 6th centuries are, too, known only in outline, because to them, as to the Frankish kings and emperors, the Alps offered a route from one place to another rather than a permanent residence.

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Teutonic tribes - 5th - 6th centuries - Frankish

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It is not until the final breakup of the Carolingian Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries that it becomes possible to trace out the local history of different parts of the Alps.

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Carolingian Empire - 10th - 11th centuries

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