!!!Markomannen

Marcomanni, German tribe of the Suebi group that settled in the Main 
valley soon after 100 B.C. Vanquished by the Romans in 
9 B.C., they moved to Bohemia under King  Marbod. Pressure 
exercised by other Germanic tribes, along with social and economic 
changes and the weakness of Roman defences led to repeated wars which 
lasted, with interruptions, from 166 to 180 A.D., and in the 
course of which the Marcomanni and their allies penetrated into 
Northern Italy. The Romans under the personal leadership of Emperor  
Marcus Aurelius had considerable difficulty in repelling them. Events 
during the subsequent Roman offensive in the area north of the Danube 
are shown in a sequence of scenes depicted on the Marcus Aurelius 
column in Rome ( Rain Miracle). In consequence of the fighting,  
Noricum was equipped with camps in which Roman legions were quartered, 
at first at  Albing and subsequently at  Lauriacum (now Enns). Further 
invasions by the Marcomanni occurred in the 3rd and 4th centuries. 
Around 396 some Marcomanni were given land in eastern Austria and 
western Hungary, where they settled as Roman allies ( Fritigil).


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