Suevi
an appellation of various Gerappellation of various Gersomewhat loosely , as we find it employed to designate peoples widely removed from each other. On six different occa sions tribes , probably Germanic, though possibly mixed with Celtic and Slavonic elements, appear in history under this ing on the E. bank of the Rhine, and name. (1) Cæsar mentions Suevi livname. (1) Cæsar mentions Suevi livpossessing 100 possessing 100 villages. (2) Tacitus sides of the Upper and Middle Elbe. places them N. and S. of this, on both appear along with the Quadi and Mar- (3) In the 2d and 3d centuries they comanni in Moravia and Bohemia. (4) In 406 Suevi crossed the Rhine along the Vandals and Alans, and break into Spain, settling more especially in Leon long with and Castile, whence they were driven by the Visigoths in 584. (5) In 420 anare spoken of in Upper Germany, who left their name . (6) In the 6th century we hear of Nordsuevi, with a on the Upper Elbe. near the N. extremity of the Gulf of