Suebi

The Suebi were a group of Germanic peoples associated with central Europe. One branch crossed into the Iberian Peninsula and established a kingdom in Gallaecia in the fifth century.

Germanic peoples: A diverse set of peoples who spoke Germanic languages and lived across northern and central Europe in antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The Suebi belonged to this broad, internally diverse grouping.
Kingdom of the Suebi: A post-Roman kingdom in Gallaecia, established by Suebi in the fifth century and conquered by the Visigoths in 585. It was the lasting political outcome of the Suebi migration into Iberia.
Hermeric: A Suebi king who ruled in Iberia during the first half of the fifth century. He is traditionally identified as the founder of the Suebi kingdom in Gallaecia.
Roman ethnography: The description and classification of peoples in Roman texts, often shaped by political and literary conventions. Ancient accounts grouped diverse communities under labels such as Suebi.
First Council of Braga: A church council held in Braga in 561 that addressed doctrine and discipline in the Suebi kingdom. Its canons document the kingdom’s ecclesiastical organization under Nicene Christianity.
Migration Period: A period of large-scale movements and political change across Europe, conventionally dated from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Suebi migrations formed part of the movements that reshaped the Western Roman Empire.
Gallaecia: A Roman province in northwestern Iberia, broadly corresponding to parts of modern Galicia and northern Portugal. Gallaecia became the Suebi kingdom’s principal territorial base.
Rechila: A Suebi king who expanded his people’s power across parts of Roman Hispania in the 440s. His campaigns marked a major phase of Suebi territorial expansion.
Tacitus: A Roman historian whose works include the Germania, an account of peoples beyond the empire’s Rhine frontier. His Germania gives an influential early description of Suebi communities.
Parochiale Suevorum: A sixth-century list of dioceses and ecclesiastical territories in the Suebi kingdom. It offers evidence for the kingdom’s administrative geography and church structure.

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GaisericRelated: They crossed the Rhine alongside Vandals and Alans before the groups later moved into Africa.