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MARCOMANNI (i.e. men of the mark, or ...

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCOMANNI (i.e. men of the See also:mark, or border)  , the name of a Suevic tribe . With kindred peoples they were often in conflict with the See also:Roman See also:Empire, and gave their name to the Marcomannic See also:War, a struggle waged by the See also:emperor See also:Marcus Aurelius against them and the Quadi . The See also:Marcomanni disappeared from See also:history during the 4th See also:century, being probably merged in the Baiouarii, the later Bavarians . See Sums'; also F . M . Wittmann, See also:Die dlteste Geschichte der Markomannen (See also:Munich, 1855), and E . See also:Devrient, " Hermunduren and Markomannen " in Neues Jahrb. f. das klassische Altertum (1901), 51 .

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