Marcomannic Wars

BelligerentsRoman Empire

Principal Belligerents:

• Marcomanni
• Quadi
• Iazyges
• Naristi
• Chatti
• Chauci
• Langobardi
• Hermunduri
• Suebi
• Buri
• Cotini
• Vandals (Hasdingi, Lacringi, and Victohali)
• Roxolani
• Bastarnae
• Costoboci

Commanders and leadersImperial family:
Marcus Aurelius
Lucius Verus#
Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus
Commodus

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Praetorian prefects:
Titus Furius Victorinus
Marcus Bassaeus Rufus
Marcus Macrinius Vindex†
Publius Tarrutenius Paternus

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Field marshals (legati):
Publius Helvius Pertinax
Marcus Claudius Fronto†
Marcus Didius Julianus
Gaius Pescennius Niger
Decimus Clodius Albinus
M. Valerius Maximianus
Lucius Gallus Julianus
Gaius Vettius Sabinianus
Titus Vitrasius Pollio Marcomanni:
Ballomar

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Quadi:
Ariogaesus

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Iazyges:
Banadaspus
Zanticus

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Naristi:
ValaoUnits involvedFull list UnknownStrength 977,000Casualties and losses Unknown Unknown

The Marcomannic Wars (Latin: bellum Germanicum et Sarmaticum, lit.'German and Sarmatian war') were a series of wars lasting from about AD 166 until 180. These wars pitted the Roman Empire against principally the GermanicMarcomanni and Quadi and the SarmatianIazyges; there were related conflicts with several other Germanic, Sarmatian, and Gothic peoples along both sides of the whole length of the Roman Empire's northeastern European border, the river Danube.

The struggle against the Germans and Sarmatians occupied the major part of the reign of Roman emperorMarcus Aurelius, and it was during his campaigns against them that he started writing his philosophical work .