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The '''Chamavi''' (variants Hamavi, Camoui) were a Germanic tribe that, for the most of their history, existed along the upper
Rhine river.
Tacitus, in his 'Germania', writes that the Chamavi expelled the Bructerian tribe from their lands. Later, about 150 A.D. the geographer
Claudius Ptolemy places them much farther east than
Tacitus, near the
Cherusci around the provinces of
Thuringia and
Anhalt. Ptolemy also mentions a people called the 'Chaemae' on the lower Rhine. The Chaemae and were probably the same as the Chamavi. Later in history, the Chamavi are mentioned by
Ammianus Marcellinus,
Gregory of Tours, and Eumenius as a tribe that made up the
Franks. In the middle ages, there existed a province in the southern
Netherlands called Hamaland, which was almost definitely named after the area's earler inhabitants, the Chamavi.
