Gautoi

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Gautoi is the Latin name used in historical sources for the Geats, a North Germanic people from what is now southern Sweden.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical ethnonym
associatedWithBodyOfWater Baltic Sea region NERFINISHED
associatedWithCulturalArea Scandinavia NERFINISHED
associatedWithRegion Götaland NERFINISHED
attestedIn Latin texts about Scandinavian peoples
contrastedWith Goths in some historical sources
correspondsToNameInModernSwedish Götar NERFINISHED
correspondsToNameInOldNorse Gautar NERFINISHED
denotes a North Germanic people
denotesPeopleFrom southern Sweden
ethnonymFor Gautar NERFINISHED
ethnonymScope tribal group
hasDemonymForm Gautus NERFINISHED
hasEtymologicalRelationTo Proto-Germanic *Gautaz
hasNameType exonym
historicalPeriod Early Middle Ages NERFINISHED
Late Antiquity
languageOfName Latin NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay southern Sweden
mentionedInContextOf early Scandinavian history
partOfLargerGroup Germanic peoples NERFINISHED
North Germanic peoples NERFINISHED
refersTo Geats NERFINISHED
refersToEthnicGroup North Germanic group
relatedEthnonym Götar NERFINISHED
sometimesConfusedWith Goths NERFINISHED
usedAsPluralForm Latin plural ethnonym
usedBy Latin-writing historians
usedIn historical sources

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the Geats ethnonymInLatin Gautoi
subject surface form: Geats