Imperial Rome a familiar topic, which many of us apparently think about with great regularity. The empire is well known to us, and well defined: However, what is less clear to us is the world beyond Rome’s borders, particularly in those regions where there lived so called uncivilised ‘barbarians’.

One name can be seen with great regularity in the Roman sources concerning these lands: Suebi. If the name seems familiar, it maybe because it is, for it was this group of Germanic tribes which lend their name to the German region of Swabia. But who were the Suebi? Were they simply yet another violent group of forestdwelling tribesman, intent on Rome’s downfall? Or is there more to this little known people? Today we will discover just that, and attempt to answer the question: Who were the Suebi?

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0:00 Intro
1:29 Problems of Classification
4:06 Geography
9:20 Military
11:10 Wars with Rome
16:11 Language
17:43 Culture
21:06 Religion
24:29 Migration Period