ชาวเครุสกี

thumb|right|400px|The Roman Empire under [[Hadrian (r.117–138), showing the former location of the Cherusci in northwestern Germany]] The Cherusci were a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the plains and forests of northwestern Germania in the area of the Weser River and present-day Hanover during the first centuries BCE and CE. Roman sources reported they considered themselves kin with other Irmino tribes and claimed common descent from an ancestor called Mannus.