Some generations later, Tacitus claimed that this is precisely what happened, saying that the Tungri of his time, who lived in the area which had been home to the "germani cisrhenani", had changed their name, but had once been the original "Germani".
Pomembna mesta so bila Besançon ("Besontio"), Strasbourg ("Argentoratum"), Wiesbaden ("Aquae Mattiacae"), in Mainz ("Mogontiacum").