Germanic people who controlled northern Spain until overthrown by King Leovegildo. Their descendents are the Schwaben of modern Baden-Wuertemberg. Their cultural remnants are perhaps visible in the fachwek houses of Galicia.
To Don Garcia he gave the kingdom of Galicia, and all the lands which he had won in Portugal, with the title of King of Galicia, which country had had no King of its own since the kingdom of the Suevi had been overthrown by King Leovegildo.