Caesar spoke of the Chatten, Usipeter, and Friesen. But there were also larger tribes made up of absorbed smaller groups. The Goths, for example, consisted of Ostragoths (eastern branch) and Visigoths (western branch) with varying numbers of smaller tribes included in them. Many times the smaller tribes would go to war with their larger brethren, but remain separate.
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