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[German version] (Ταΐφαλοι/ Taḯphaloi, Suda s. v. Τ.; also Taifruli). Semi-nomadic Eastern Germanic equestrian people, recorded in the mid-3rd cent. AD in Dacia (Daci) and Moesia (Moesi; Iord. Get. 91) and then with the Tervingi in the north of Transylvania (Eutr. 8,2,2). In the middle of the 4th cent., they probably settled to the east of Muntenia (in modern Romania) as far west as the Alutus (modern Olt) with their core in the Muntenian Baragan Steppe. Earliest mention in literature: Pan. Lat. 11…

[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Raeti, Raetia Roman auxiliary fort in Raetia (Raeti), modern Künzing (Lower Bavaria). No traces of earlier Celtic settlement have been found. Around AD 90, an auxiliary fort was built on a slightly raised loess terrace on a loop of the Danube on the right side of the river. The four-phase construction (phase three = first stone construction featured up to five fosses) was occupied - possibly with a brief interruption between AD 135 and c. 150 -- by a garrison until the 2nd half of the 3rd cent. AD (name: It. Ant. 249…