Talk:Marcomannic Wars

Great Germannic invasion of 170 or of 167?

The article places the Great Germannic invasion, which ran all the way to Aquilleia, in AD170. Various scholars place this invasion earlier in 167: for instance see Frank McLynn in his recent (2009) book Marcus Aurelius, Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor or A. Mocsy in Pannonia and Upper Moesia. McLynn gives an entire list of authors who share this view and his arguments are compelling. I think this view should be worked in to the article. -- fdewaele, 6 July 2012.

I have added a paragraph regarding the fact that there is no unity amongst scholars regarding the exact date of the Great Germanic Invasion. -- fdewaele, 6 July 2012, 18:45 CET.

Location?

The 'location' listed in the info box says it happened along the "Whole length of river Danube, the northeastern European border...", while the info in the first paragraph says it occurred along the "whole length of the Roman empire's southeastern European border, the river Danube". South-eastern vs North-eastern? Is this a mistake? 60.242.210.126 (talk) 11:57, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Nicely noticed. It should be "northeastern" as the empire's southeastern border would be Egypt, Syria and Arabia. I've thus corrected it in the article. - fdewaele, 20 October 2013

Marcomannia and Sarmatia

The claim that two provinces bearing these names had been intended is only alleged by the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta. For the lack of any confirming source, the claim is doubted by consent, according to the German version of this Wikipedia entry http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markomannenkriege . Nafiris (talk) 18:36, 14 November 2014 (UTC) == Marcomannic Wars == == Belligerents == == Commanders and leaders == Raus and Raptus of Astingi Wikipedia entry https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerres_marcomanes Raus George de Boiu Mare (talk) 06:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

The intended creation of Roman provinces in 'Maromannia' and 'Samartia' is mentioned by Cassius Dio who is generally hostile to the notion of expanding the empire - cf 71.33.4. There is also evidence of a major military presence in the first of these region with bath-houses indicative of intended permanent occupation. See Birley 's biography of Marcus Aurelius. PJBS Pjbjas (talk) 15:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Location of "Free Dacians"

It is mentioned in the article that "the so-called "free Dacians" living between the Danube and Roman Dacia", with regards to the third Marcomannic war. This should be a mistake because as far I know, Danube was the lower limit of the Roman Dacia. The Roman forces came from the south and crossed the Danube. The conquest of Dacia started from the Danube and ended in Transilvania. So it is not possible that Free Dacians would exist between Danube and the Roman Dacia province because there is no such territory. Danube was the limit of Roman Dacia, until the Aurelian withdraw. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2F05:1309:B500:1043:335D:750B:7E06 (talk) 15:56, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

If you look at the maps at the end of the article, it makes sense: "the free Dacians" were between the Roman Dacia (on the west) and the Danube (on the east and south).Adrian two (talk) 16:16, 29 March 2021 (UTC)