The Kingdom of the Suebi was a Germanic kingdom which ruled over the western half of the Iberian Peninsula from 409 to 585, with Braga serving as its capital. In 406 AD, the Suebi crossed the Rhine River, and the Suebi, Vandals, and Alans invaded Hispania in 409. The Buri and Suebi settled in Gallaecia, and the Suebi inhabited the western half of the peninsula, including the Roman provinces of Gallaecia and Lusitania. From 438 to 448, the Suebi king Rechila expanded the Suebic kingdom from Galicia, conqueirng the Lusitanian capital of Merida in 439 and Seville in 441; the Suebians came to include Baetica and Carthaginensis in their kingdom. In 446, a Roman attempt to reconquer the Peninsula failed, and the Suebi remained in control of their new domains. In 466, the Suebi converted to Arian Christianity, and they later converted to Catholicism during the 560s. It maintained its independence until 585, after the pro-Visigoth Suebic king Eboric was overthrown by his brother-in-law Andeca, the Visigoth king Leovigild invaded and conquered the Suebi, and a Suebic rebellion led by Malaric was defeated that same year. However, a year later, the Visigoths gave up Arianism and converted to the Suebi's religion of Catholicism, and the administrative apparatus of the Suebi kingdom kingdom existed until the 600s, when the Visigoths began to migrate into Gallaecia and assimilate the Suebi.
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