The Tungri were a tribe of Gaul and Germania. In a casual aside in Germania Tacitus remarks that Germani was the original tribal name of the Tungri with whom the Gauls were in contact; among the Gauls the term Germani came to be widely applied. The Tungri were among the first to cross the Rhine into Roman territory and settle among the Gauls, but Julius Caesar, the first to mention "Germani this side of the Rhine", doesn't mention them in his Gallic Wars. Pliny the Elder is the first writer to m… (More on Tungri)