Marches
THE, a territory of Italy, comprising a region lying between the Apennines and the Adriatic, and divided into four provinces-Urbino and Pesaro, Ancona, Macerata, and Ascoli; total area, 3,749 square miles; pop. about 1,175,000.
MARCIANUS (mar-shi-ā'nus), Emperor of Rome after the death of Theodosius II., in 450. He was a Thracian of obscure origin. His reign, which lasted but six years, was marked by peaceful and energetic measures. died in 457.
He MARCOMANNI (-man'nĩ), a name meaning Men of the Marches, or Frontiers, or Borderers, and given by the Ro- GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH mans to various tribes on the confines of Germany. Some hordes under this name were driven out of Gaul by Julius Cæsar, 58 B. C. Maroboduus formed a league among these tribes, and concluded a treaty with Tiberius (after- MARCONI ward emperor), in the year 6. The Cherusci defeated the Marcommani in 17, and a peace was mediated between them by Drusus. Domitian made war on them, and was defeated in 90. In alliance with other tribes they invaded the Roman empire in 166, when a war commenced which was not brought to a close till 180. They ravaged Italy in 270. The last notice of Marcomanni is in 451, when they formed a contingent of the army with which Attila invaded Gaul and Italy.