The Suebi were a large group of Germanic peoples first reported by Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC. In different contexts over several centuries, peoples within this umbrella category were sometim
Osterby Man from northern Germany showing a Suebian knot, dated beween 75 and 130 AD
Mušov Cauldron, a Roman bronze cauldron found in 1988 in a Germanic chieftain's grave in Mušov, Czech Republic, dating to the 2nd century A.D. The cauldron is decorated by four cast heads of Germanic men wearing a Suebian knot hairstyle
A chained prisoner wears breeches and has a suebian knot. 2nd century AD bronze, Vienna
Roman bronze statuette. Bibliothèque Nationale de France
The Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Galicia or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia, was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire. Based in the fo
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…including many Quadi and other Middle Danubians, entered Roman Hispania by 409, where a Roman civil war was in progress. There they established the Kingdom of the Suebi in Gallaecia (north-west Iberia), which lasted from 409 to 585. This was eventually absorbed by the Visigothic Kingdom, but its legacy survives in local…
Detail of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, built during this emperor's reign on the occasion of the triumph over, among other peoples, the Suevic tribes of Marcomanni and Quadi in the year 176. Piazza Colonna (Rome).
Suebic migrations across Europe ultimately spearheaded by Hermeric, founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of the Suebi in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (part of modern-day Portugal and Spain).
Distribution of Germanic place names across the Iberian peninsula. Darker shades indicate higher concentration.