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Born in the second half of the first century B.C.; died A.D. 37 in Ravenna. Leader of the Marcomanni.Maroboduus came from a noble family. As a youth he lived in Rome and was educated at the court of Emperor Augustus. After the Marcomanni moved into the territory of present-day Bohemia (8 B.C.), Maroboduus united the ...

a war of Germanic and Sarmatian tribes against Rome, caused by the movements of these tribes on the western borders of the Roman Empire.Crossing the Rhine-Danube border, the Marcomanni, Quadi, Hermunduri, Jazyges, and other tribes entered Italy. In A.D. 169 they began pouring into northern Italy, besieged Aquileia, and devastated the city of Opitergius. The war was waged with varying success. Only in ...

... . Located in northern Pannonia on the Danube River, it was an important Roman post from the time of Tiberius. It was used as a base by Marcus Aurelius in his campaign against the Marcomanni ( AD 172–174); there he wrote the second book of his Meditations. The camp was finally destroyed by the Germans in the 4th century.

... of the Boii moved out of Bohemia into Pannonia and Noricum, and from there partially into Gaul. There is no more information on the Boii after the settlement of Bohemia by the Marcomanni (end of the first century B.C.). The Boii played an important role in the ethnogenesis of the Czech people.

... took part in the war of the Marcomanni against Rome, but they were defeated and forced to recognize the supremacy of Rome. They soon regained their freedom but were again subjugated in 375. In the early fifth century some of the Quadi migrated with the Vandals to Spain where they established their own kingdom in the northwestern part of the country, which lasted ...