Teutobod
Sign in to savethumb|300px|The supposed migrations of the Teutons and the Cimbri. Cimbri and Teutons defeats. Cimbri and Teutons victories.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- politician
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- The capture of Teutobochus a legendary giant and king of the Teutons from Ward.jpg
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- date of death
- 0101-01-01
- date of birth
- 0200-01-01
- cause of death
- asphyxia
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Life
- Teutobochus tomb hoax
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thumb|300px|The supposed migrations of the Teutons and the Cimbri. Cimbri and Teutons defeats. Cimbri and Teutons victories.
Teutobod was a king of the Teutons, who, together with the allied Cimbri, invaded the Roman Republic in the Cimbrian War and won a spectacular victory at the Battle of Arausio in 105 BC. He was later defeated and captured at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC by the Roman army led by Gaius Marius. In legend, he was known as Teutobochus or Theutobochus, a giant and king of the Teutons. Large bones discovered in France in 1613 were claimed to be his skeleton, but were later shown to belong to the extinct elephant-relative Deinotherium.
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