Kingdom of the Suebi

The Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Galicia, was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom and one of the first to break away from the Roman Empire. It was based in the old provinces of Gallaecia and northern Lusitania, and its de facto kingdom was set up by the Suebi about 409, becoming in the sixth century a formally declared kingdom that stood for Gallaecia itself. The Suebi of Galicia are thought to descend in part from the Quadi and Marcomanni of the Danube, recent ethnogenesis on the road from the Danube to Iberia joining smaller groups into one people; they crossed the Rhine on the last night of 405, entered Gaul, and, with Vandals and Alans, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain in 409. Little is known of them before they appear in the Laterculus Veronensis beside Alamanni, Quadi and Marcomanni, and sixth-century writers simply called them Germans. It kept its independence until 585, when the Visigoths annexed it and made it the sixth province of their Hispanic kingdom.