Editing Suebi (section)

==Migration period==
[[File:Alemanni expansion.png|thumb|Alemanni expansion and Roman-Alemannic battle sites, 3rd to 5th century]]

In 259/60, one or more groups of Suebi appear to have been the main element in the formation of a new tribal alliance known as the [[Alemanni]] who came to occupy the Roman frontier region known as the [[Agri Decumates]], east of the Rhine and south of the Main. The Alamanni were sometimes simply referred to as Suebi by contemporaries, and the region came to be known as [[Swabia]] – a name which survives to this day. People in this region of Germany are still called [[Schwaben]], a name derived from the Suebi. One specific group in the region in the 3rd century, sometimes distinguished from the Alamanni, were the [[Juthungi]], which a monument found in Augsburg refers to as Semnones.

A large group of Suebi, whose origins are unclear, breached the Roman frontier by [[Crossing of the Rhine|crossing the Rhine]], perhaps at [[Mainz]], at about the same time as the Vandals and [[Alans]] (31 December 406), thus launching an invasion of northern [[Gaul]]. It is thought that this group probably contained a significant amount of [[Quadi]], moving out of their homeland under pressure from [[Radagaisus]]. This group later invaded Spain and became rulers of Roman Gaellicia.

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. Another group of Suebi, the so-called "northern Suebi" were described as a part of the Saxons in 569 under the [[Franks|Frankish]] king [[Sigebert I]] in areas of today's [[Saxony-Anhalt]]. An area known as [[Schwabengau]] or Suebengau existed at least until the 12th century. 

Further south, a group of Suebi established a kingdom in parts of [[Pannonia]], which appears in records after the [[Huns]] were defeated in 454 at the [[Battle of Nedao]]. Their king [[Hunimund]] fought against the [[Ostrogoths]] in the [[battle of Bolia]] in 469. The Suebian coalition lost the battle, and Hunimund appear to have migrated towards southern Germany.<ref>Geschichte der Goten. Entwurf einer historischen Ethnographie, C.H. Beck, 1. Aufl. (München 1979), 2. Aufl. (1980), unter dem Titel: Die Goten. Von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechsten Jahrhunderts. 4. Aufl. (2001)</ref> The [[Marcomanni]] probably made up one significant part of these Suebi, who lived in at least two distinct areas.<ref>See [[Friedrich Lotter]] on the "Donausueben".</ref> Later, the Lombards, a Suebic group long known on the Elbe, came to dominate the Pannonian region before successfully invading Italy.