{"slug": "sciri", "label": "Sciri", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciri", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622776", "qid": "Q622776", "description": "ancient Germanic people in Eastern Europe", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-101, 476], "span_label": ["102 BCE", "476 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "heruli", "label": "Heruli", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "odoacer", "label": "Odoacer", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gepids", "label": "Gepids", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gallia-belgica", "label": "Gallia Belgica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "europe", "label": "Europe", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -101, "year_label": "102 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Marius defeats the Sciri and Teutones at Aix-en-Provence (or Battle of Aquae Sextae).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703607#Roman_Republic", "title": "102 BC", "revid": 1325703607, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 381, "year_label": "381 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Sciri together with the Huns attack along Rome's lower Danubian frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281451732#Europe", "title": "381", "revid": 1281451732, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 406, "year_label": "406 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Cultivation of rye, oats, hops, and spelt (a wheat used for livestock feed) is introduced in Europe by the native Vandals, Alans, and Sciri, who also introduce a heavy wheeled plow to be used for farming.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305888876#Agriculture", "title": "406", "revid": 1305888876, "section": "Events › By topic › Agriculture"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Attila gathers his vassals—Bastarnae, Gepids, Heruls, Ostrogoths, Rugians, Scirians and Thuringians (among others), and smashes through Germany, causing widespread panic and destruction. He arrives in Belgica with an army (50,000 men) and crosses the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 454, "year_label": "454 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Nedao: Allied forces of subjected peoples (Gepids, Heruli, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Sciri and Suebi), under the leadership of King Ardaric, defeat the Huns under Ellac, eldest son of Attila the Hun, in Pannonia. Ellac is killed during the battle and succeeded by his brother Dengizich.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747737#Europe", "title": "454", "revid": 1364747737, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 470, "year_label": "470 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Odoacer becomes the leader of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati) in Northern Italy (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333241735#Europe", "title": "470", "revid": 1333241735, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic/Scirian foederati), visits the imperial palace at Ravenna. He petitions Orestes (magister militum) to reward his mercenaries for their services and their support of his rebellion a year earlier, by making good on his promise to grant them lands to settle permanently in Italy. Orestes refuses this proposal and Odoacer leads his tribesmen in a revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Roman_Empire", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}