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    Swedes (tribe) (redirect from Suiones)
    Scandinavian tribe named the Suiones was known to the Romans. Tacitus wrote in AD 98 in Germania 44, 45 that the Suiones were a powerful tribe (distinguished...
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    them similar to Suiones (ancestors of modern Swedes) apart from one descriptor, namely that women were the ruling sex. Upon the Suiones, border the people...
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  • According to Tacitus, the territory of Aesti was located somewhere east of the Suiones (Swedes). According to Tacitus, the Aesti live Upon the right of the Suevian...
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    Baltic Sea the Mare Suevicum ("Suebian Sea") after the Suiones, and ends his description of the Suiones and Sitones with "Here Suebia ends" (Hic Suebiae finis)...
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    the Swedes (Suiones) as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow at each end (longships). Which kings (*kuningaz) ruled these Suiones is unknown, but...
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    etymological sources list the following ethnic names as being from the same root: Suiones (whence also the name of the Swedes), Samnites, Sabellians, Sabines, and...
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    Tacitus (about 98 AD) described a nation called "Suiones" living on an island in the Ocean. These Suiones had ships that were peculiar because they had a...
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    98 AD, tribes called the Sitones and the Suiones are mentioned as inhabitants in neighboring lands. The Suiones are described as living "in the sea", which...
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    credible and respected source, Tacitus in Germania Chapter 44 described the Suiones, who were divided into civitates (kingdoms?) along the coast of Scandinavia...
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    based on a brief section in the Roman historian Tacitus discussing the Suiones tribe. This would imply that a Swedish kingdom would have existed in the...
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    13th century. Blue and yellow represents the Geats (from Götaland) and Suiones (from Svealand) tribes; their unification marks the consolidation of Sweden...
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    name. All the Swedish lawspeakers were subordinate to the one of Tiundaland. Folkland (Swedish provinces) Attundaland Roslagen Stone of Mora Suiones...
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    Some Proto-Norse names are found in Latin works, like tribal names like Suiones (*Sweoniz, "Swedes"). Others can be conjectured from manuscripts such as...
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    Geats; the main tribe of Svealand, according to Tacitus ca 100 AD, was the Suiones (or the "historical Swedes"). "Norrland" was the overall denomination for...
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    (if not the endonym of the Indo-Europeans): Germanic Suebi and Semnones, Suiones; Celtic Senones; Slavic Serbs and Sorbs; Italic Sabelli, Sabini, etc.,...
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    prehistoric times. As early as the 1st century CE, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of Swedish regnal succession up until King Eric...
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    century historian Tacitus, in his book Germania, mentioned that "beyond the Suiones [tribe]" a sea was located where the sun maintained its brilliance from...
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    of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends (in Latin translation: kings of Suiones, Goths and Vandals) (Swedish: Svears, Götes och Wendes Konung). After the...
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    had navigated into the waters beyond the Cimbric peninsula (Jutland). Suiones, Sitones, Goths and other Germanic people had temporarily settled to the...
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  • in particular, being the origin not only of the Geats, but also of the Suiones, the Danes; and furthermore the location of various phenomena in Norse...
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    The old forest border between Swedes (Suiones) and Geats. Blue=Tiveden; green=Tylöskog; red=Kolmården...
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    (if not the endonym of the Indo-Europeans): Germanic Suebi and Semnones, Suiones; Celtic Senones; Slavic Serbs and Sorbs; Italic Sabelli, Sabini, etc.,...
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    the Westrogothic law and the Gutasaga talk of the King of the Swedes (Suiones) as the "King at Uppsala". It was the main centre of the Swedes. During...
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    people who inhabited Svealand in eastern central Sweden, and were listed as Suiones in Tacitus' history Germania from the first century AD. The term is believed...
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    Sollentuna Municipality. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Northern suburbs of Stockholm. Fjärdhundraland Roslagen Stones of Mora Suiones Uppsala öd...
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    Latin world. With the exception of the passing references to the Swedes (Suiones) and the Geats (Gautoi), much of Scandinavia remained unrecorded by Roman...
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    united for the first time, but already in 98 AD, Tacitus described the Suiones as a powerful tribe. The term Folkland, in the transferred sense of originally...
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    s-rune. It is also possible that it refers to the Germanic tribe of the Suiones that inhabited the region, whose realm laid the basis for what became Sweden...
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  • probably in the 6th Century. Their endonym is a clear cognate of the Suiones (also known as Swēon) the Swedes. Also known as Ingaevonic. Their territory...
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    Levonii Liothida Mixi Njars Otingis Sitones Suðrmenn (in Södermanland) Suiones / Sviones / Suehans / Suetidi / Suetides (ancient Swedes) (Svíar): Wægmunding...
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