ABSTRACT
The name Swabia goes back to the name of the Germanic tribe of the Suebi who, together with the Alemanni, occupied the area between the Upper Rhine and the Upper Danube in the first century AD. Later they spread south to Lake Constance and then into what is now Switzerland and in the east as far as the Lech. In Roman times this whole region was known as Alemannia, the designation Swabia does not occur until the eleventh century.
