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Sentence Examples Caesar relates that he crossed the Rhine again to punish the Suebi for sending reinforcements to the Treveri. Some commentators believe that Caesar's Suebi were the later Chatti or possibly the Hermunduri, or Semnones. In the time of Caesar, southern Germany was Celtic, but coming under pressure from Germanic groups led by the Suebi. Ariovistus of the Suebi is reported to have done the same thing in his battle against Julius Caesar. In the battle, the united army of Gepids, Rugii, Sarmatians and Suebi routed the Huns and their allies, including the Ostrogoths. He also describes the Marcomanni as a tribe distinct from the Suebi, and also active within the same alliance. The Suebi abandoned their towns closest to the Romans, retreated to the forest and assembled an army. A portion of the western Alans joined the Vandals and the Suebi in their invasion of Roman Gaul. The Siling Vandals settled in Baetica, the Suebi in coastal Gallaecia, and the Asding Vandals in the rest of Gallaecia. The Germanic tribes that had joined the Suebi in their foray now bought peace by turning against them and attacking them in retreat. When the Usipetes and Tencteri were driven from their lands by the Suebi in 55 BC, he was not mentioned. Caesar moved back across the bridge and broke it down, stating that he had achieved his objective of warning the Suebi. Caesar relates that the Suebi maintained a citizen army of 100,000 men picked yearly, and Tacitus that the Suebi were not one tribe. Presumably only the war party was sold, as the Suebi continue to appear in the ancient sources. Another Germanic group that accompanied the Suebi and settled in Gallaecia were the Buri. The same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia. Additionally, minor Germanic tribes, like the Vandals, the Suebi, and the Visigoths established kingdoms in Hispania. On the other hand, the Suebi of the upper Danube are described as though they were a tribe. Western Roman rule was first violated with the Crossing of the Rhine and the following invasions of the Vandals and Suebi. Germanicus certainly would have involved the Suebi, with unpredictable results. Show More Sentences They next extended their authority into Hispania at the expense of the Suebi and Vandals. Between 572 and 574, Leovigild invaded the valley of the Douro, pushing the Suebi west and northwards. People in this region of Germany are still called Schwaben, a name derived from the Suebi. Beyond Mainz is Suevia, the country of the Suebi, and beyond that is Alamannia, the country of the Alamanni. Further south, a group of Suebi settled in parts of Pannonia, after the Huns were defeated in 454 in the Battle of Nedao. The Suebian coalition lost the battle, and parts of the Suebi therefore migrated to southern Germany. Probably the Marcomanni made up one significant part of these Suebi, who probably lived in at least two distinct areas. Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Braga and former capital of Roman Gallaecia, became the capital of the Suebi. The absence of competition permitted, first the Asdingi Vandals and later the Suebi, to expand South and East. In 459, Roman Emperor Majorian defeated the Suebi, briefly restoring Roman rule in northern Hispania. Nevertheless, the Suebi became free of Roman control forever after Majorian was assassinated two years later. In 570 the Arian king of the Visigoths, Leovigild, made his first attack on the Suebi. The name of the Suebi also appears in Norse mythology and in early Scandinavian sources. In the 1st century AD, they formed part of the Suebi, in northwestern Germany. To their east stretching northwards to the central Elbe are the Suebi Angili. The former Kingdom of the Suebi then became the sixth province of the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania. An area in southwest Germany is still called Swabia, which name derives from the Suebi. German linguist Jacob Grimm believed that the name Suebi was of Slavic origin. Following Roman rule, there were successive conquests of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica by the Vandals, the Suebi and the Visigoths during the 5th and 6th centuries. The Suebi eventually migrated south west to reside for a while in the Rhineland area of modern Germany, where their name survives in the historic region known as Swabia. Show More Sentences Other monarchies were established by the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, the Suebi in northwestern Iberia, and the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. From the various Germanic groups who settled in Western Iberia, the Suebi left the strongest lasting cultural legacy in what is today Portugal, Galicia and Asturias. Towards the end of the empire, the Alemanni, also referred to as Suebi, first settled in the Agri Decumates and then crossed the Rhine and occupied Alsace. Caesar describes the Suebi as pressing the German tribes of the Rhine, such as the Tencteri, Usipetes and Ubii, from the east, forcing them from their homes. This is the first mention of any permanent king of the Suebi. However, Maroboduus' people was in most sources referred to as the king of the Marcomanni, a tribal name that had already been distinct from the Suebi in Caesar's time. Other Suebi apparently remained in or near to the original homeland areas near the Elbe and the modern Czech Republic, occasionally still being referred to by this term. A list of peoples who were said to fear Chilperic's power is given and includes the Frisians, as well as the Suebi, Goths, Basques, Danes, Jutes, Saxons, and Britons. These included the Cherusci, Marsi, Chatti, Bructeri, Chauci, Sicambri, and remaining elements of the Suebi, who had been defeated by Caesar in the Battle of Vosges. Between 91 and 92 during the reign of emperor Domitian, the Romans sent a military detachment to assist their client Lugii against the Suebi in what is now Poland. Shortly after seizing the throne, Genseric was attacked from the rear by a large force of Suebi under the command of Heremigarius who had managed to take Lusitania. In the same category he places the Chatti, Cherusci, and Suebi. Some commentators believe that Caesar's Suebi were possibly the later Chatti, a branch of the Suebian movement of people who had become more clearly identifiable. The Gepids joined a coalition formed by the Suebi, Scirii, Sarmatians and other peoples formed against the Ostrogoths who had settled in Pannonia. Around 409 AD, they joined the Vandals and Suebi in the crossing of the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula, settling in Lusitania and Carthaginiensis. It seems clear that the Romans had allowed them to take the former lands of the now missing Boii, in exchange for serving as a buffer against the Suebi. Nevertheless, several important wars were fought in Gaul, against the Chatti, and across the Danube frontier against the Suebi, the Sarmatians, and the Dacians. From the last day of 405 or 406, the Siling and Asding Vandals, the Suebi, the Alans, and other Germanic tribes crossed the Rhine, possibly at Mainz. Intending to take the strategic town of Vesontio, he concentrated his forces on the Rhine near Lake Constance, and when the Suebi arrived, he crossed. Remembering their expensive defeat at the Battle of Vesontio, the Germans withdrew to the Black Forest, concentrating there a mixed population dominated by Suebi. Find more words! 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