ABSTRACT
AD 8. Tiberius settles 40,000 Suevi and Sugambri on the west of the Rhine. AD? Sextus Aelius Catus settles 50,000 Getae (Dacians) south of the Danube. 171 onwards? Marcus Aurelius settles Quadi and other peoples in Dacia, Pannonia, Moesia, Germania and Italy, but later removes them from Italy. 231-2 Gallienus (allegedly) cedes part of Pannonia to the Marcomannic king Attalus, but this is in extreme emergency. 268-270 After defeating the Goths, Claudius II settles many of them as coloni. 276-282 Probus settles many defeated barbarians: Burgundians, Vandals, Bastarnae, Gepids, Greuthungi, etc. 285-305 Under Diocletian’s Tetrarchy, barbarians are settled in many provinces, and some frontiers (such as the Rhine estuary) are shortened, with client states occupying the previously Roman territories. Chamavi, Frisii and Franks are settled in Gaul; Carpi in eastern Pannonia, Bastarnae and Sarmatians in territories not clearly identified. 334? Constantine I settles over 300,000 Sarmatians in Thrace, Scythia, Macedonia and Italy. 337-361 Constantius II settles Visigoths in Moesia, and other (unnamed) barbarians in Thrace. Sarmatians also seem to be admitted, but the attempt by the Limigantes to gain a foothold in imperial territory is repulsed. The Caesar Julian concedes settlements to Salian Franks in Gaul. 370? Valentinian I settles captive Alamanni in northern Italy. 366 Valens distributes a number of captive Goths in the cities of the Danube, perhaps as coloni. 376 Valens allows the major Visigoth (Tervingi) immigration which leads to the Battle of Adrianople. 380 Gratian allows Ostrogoths (Greuthungi) to settle in Pannonia and Upper Moesia, but the treaty terms are not known. It was under pressure, and may have been a foederati settlement, anticipating 382. 382 Theodosius’ treaty with the Visigoths, settling them as foederati in the diocese of Thrace.
