Adrabaecampi is the scholarly transliteration into Latin of
Ptolemy's Adrabaikampoi, a tribe, he says, of greater Germany, dwelling on the north bank of the
Danube
The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...
south of the
Gabreta Forest
The Gabreta Forest is an ancient forest mentioned by the Greek geographers, Strabo and Ptolemy. In the former it is termed the ''hule megale Gabreta'', or "large wood, Gabreta" (Book 7, Chapter 1, Section 5), and in the latter, ''hule Gabreta'', "G ...
after the
Marcomanni
The Marcomanni were a Germanic people
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that established a powerful kingdom north of the Danube, somewhere near modern Bohemia, during the peak of power of the nearby Roman Empire. According to Tacitus and Strabo, they were Suebian.
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and
Sudini.
Early Germanic peoples
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