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Suevic Postcard-3 (cropped)
Suevic may refer to: * Suebi The Suebi (or Suebians, also spelled Suevi, Suavi) were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic. In the early Roman era they included many peoples with their own names ... or Suevi, a large group of Germanic peoples * SS ''Suevic'', a steamship {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suebi
The Suebi (or Suebians, also spelled Suevi, Suavi) were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic. In the early Roman era they included many peoples with their own names such as the Marcomanni, Quadi, Hermunduri, Semnones, and Lombards. New groupings formed later, such as the Alamanni and Bavarians, and two kingdoms in the Migration Period were simply referred to as Suebian. Although Tacitus specified that the Suebian group was not an old tribal group itself, the Suebian peoples are associated by Pliny the Elder with the Irminones, a grouping of Germanic peoples who claimed ancestral connections. Tacitus mentions Suebian languages, and a geographical "Suevia". The Suevians were first mentioned by Julius Caesar in connection with the invasion of Gaul by the Germanic king Ariovistus during the Gallic Wars. Unlike Tacitus he described them as a single people, distinct from the Marcomanni, within the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Suevic
SS ''Suevic'' was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. ''Suevic'' was the fifth and last of the s, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route, along with her sister ship . In 1907 she was wrecked off the south coast of England, but in the largest rescue of its kind, all passengers and crew were saved. The ship herself was deliberately broken in two, and a new bow was attached to the salvaged stern portion. Later serving as a Norwegian whaling factory ship carrying the name ''Skytteren'', she was scuttled off the Swedish coast in 1942 to prevent her capture by ships of Nazi Germany. Design and construction When White Star inaugurated service from Liverpool to Sydney in the late 1890s, they commissioned five steamships to be built for that route: the first three all entered service in 1899: , and . All three were single-funnel ocean liners which measured just under and were configured to carry 320 third class pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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