Reihengräber

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A culture characterized by the burial practice of regularly arranged, identically oriented inhumation graves, existing between the mid-fifth and early-eighth century in central and western Europe, within the Merovingian sphere of influence.

Word forms

Reihengräber

Etymology

From German Reihengräber (literally “row grave”).

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