Geats
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gautae, Gauti, Gutae, Gautigoth
right|thumb|220px|Geatish settlements during the 6th century, within the red lines. The green areas show the main areas of North Germanic settlement in Scandinavia. The Geats ( ), sometimes called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with the tribes of Swedes and Gutes. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces of and , the western and eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms.
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16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Early history
- Political centralization in Scandinavia
- Dynastic struggles
- Society
- Modern legacy
- Goths
- Fringe theories
- Götaland theory
- Identity of the Gēatas
- Jutish hypothesis
- Gutnish hypothesis
- See also
- Notes
- References
right|thumb|220px|Geatish settlements during the 6th century, within the red lines. The green areas show the main areas of North Germanic settlement in Scandinavia. The Geats ( ), sometimes called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with the tribes of Swedes and Gutes. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces of and , the western and eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms.
The Swedish dialects spoken in the areas that used to be inhabited by Geats form a distinct group, Götamål.