Bursibant

Bursibant was in the Christian Middle Ages a region around Rheine.

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Bursibant stretched northwest of the Ems and included the following villages: Rheine, Emsdetten, Neuenkirchen, Ohne, Schüttorf, Bentheim, Gildehaus, Nordhorn, Brandlecht, Frenswegen, Wietmarschen, Schepsdorf, Emsbüren, Elbergen, Salzbergen, Dreierwalde, Mesum, Elte and Saerbeck.

On the Holy Sea Bursibant bordered the Gaue Venki and Threcwiti, to the south to the Dreingau and to the west to the Skopingau. Small and big BrukererQualtext edit

According to Hermann Middendorf's interpretation of a Ptolemy site in the area before the border wars with the Romans lived the so-called Little Brukterer, their tribal relatives, the so-called Great Brukterer more east, H. north of the Teutoburg Forest. For their crushing defeat, the Roman armies of the Rhine retaliated by the constant invasions of the first millennium, so that the Great Brutees were finally compelled to migrate southward into the territory of the Tenkterians. Edit name source text

"Bursi" is supposed to mean "swampy" and "bant" "border area." Edit source text

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