The
Quadi was a smaller Germanic
tribe about which little definitive information
is known. They emerged as an element in the earlier migrations southward
that took place near the beginning of the
1st century CE, alongside the
more numerous
Marcomanni, who they were probably closely related to.
They were settled in what is now
Moravia and western
Slovakia from
roughly
40 CE onward. Their frontiers for the next 350 years or more
were the Marcomanni to the west, proto-
Slavic tribes to the north,
Sarmatian
Iazgyians[?] and (later) Asding
Vandals to the east, and the
Roman Empire to the south.
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