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Reihengräber

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Etymology

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From German Reihengräber (literally row grave).

Proper noun

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Reihengräber

  1. (historical, archaeology) 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.