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Little is known about the Suebi who crossed the Rhine on the night of 31 December 406 AD and entered the Roman Empire. It is speculated that these Suevi are the same group as the Quadi, who are mentioned in early writings as living north of the middle Danube, in what is now lower Austria and western Slovakia, [3] [4] and who played an important part in the Germanic Wars of the 2nd century ...
The Chronicle of Hydatius is the main source for the history of the Suebi in Galicia and Portugal up to 468. Identity and Interaction: the Suevi and the Hispano-Romans, University of Virginia, 2007; Medieval Galician anthroponomy; Minutes of the Councils of Braga and Toledo, in the Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis
A century later, the differences between Gallaeci and Suebi people had faded, which led to the systematic use of terms like Galliciense Regnum [7] (Galician Kingdom), Regem Galliciae [8] (King of Galicia), Rege Suevorum (King of Suebi), and Galleciae totius provinciae rex (king of all Galician provinces), [9] while bishops, such as Martin of ...
In the year 411, Galicia fell to the Suebi, who formed a kingdom of their own. The number of the original Suebic invaders is estimated as fewer than 30,000 people, settled mainly in the urbanized zones of Braga (Bracara Augusta), Porto , Lugo (Lucus Augusta) and Astorga (Asturica Augusta).
As result, the Suebi kingdom came to its limits, encompassing modern day Galicia, northern Portugal until Coimbra, and large parts of Asturias, León and Zamora. [104] The chronicle of Hydatius also records naval raids of both Vandals and Heruli on the Galician coasts during the 5th century. [96]
The medieval and modern Kingdom of Galicia derived of the kingdom of the Suebi, founded by king Hermeric in 410. By the 6th century the kingdom of the Suebi was already known as the Kingdom of Galicia, Gregory of Tours being the first chronicler to use this denomination.
This province took the name of Gallaecia since it was the most populous and important zone within the province. In 409, as Roman control collapsed, the Suebi conquests transformed Roman Gallaecia (convents Lucense and Bracarense) into the Kingdom of Galicia (the Galliciense Regnum recorded by Hydatius and Gregory of Tours).
Germanic names were the most common personal names in Galicia-Portugal during the early and high Middle Ages, surpassing Christian and Roman names in number and popularity. [2] The names, primarily of East Germanic origin, were used by the Suebi, Goths, Vandals and Burgundians.