The Ampsivarii were a Germanic tribe mentioned by the Roman author Gaius Cornelius Tacticus, writing in the 1st century C.E. Their homeland was located in what is now northwestern Germany around the river Ems, which flows into the North Sea. Tacitus' name for them is a Latin rendering of the Germanic "Ems-werer", meaning "men of the Ems".

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• Book XIII Chapter 55: Events in the North. The Ampsivarii(AD 58)
• The Annals by P. Cornelius Tacitus