Suebi
Noun
Meaning
Suebi pl (plural only)
A group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.
Anagrams
Examples
According to Dan Stanislawski, the Portuguese way of living in Northern regions is mostly inherited from the Suebi, in which small farms prevail, distinct from the large properties of Southern Portugal.
According to historians such as Herwig Wolfram : :The Marcomanni and the Quadi gave up their special names after crossing the Danube, in fact both the emigrants and the groups remaining in Pannonia became Suebi again.
AD 90 – c. AD 168), in a fairly extensive account of Greater Germany, citation makes several unusual mentions of Suebi between the Rhine and the Elbe.
Another group of Suebi, the so-called "northern Suebi" were mentioned in 569 under Frankish king Sigebert I in areas of today's Saxony-Anhalt which were known as Schwabengau or Svebengau at least until the 12th century.
Caesar and the Suebi in 55 BC Also reported within Caesar's accounts of the Gallic wars, the Suebi posed another threat in 55 BC.
Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Braga and former capital of Roman Gallaecia, became the capital of the Suebi.