The
Sitones were a
Germanic people living somewhere in Northern Europe in the 1st century
CE. They are only mentioned by
Cornelius Tacitus in 97 CE in
Germania. Tacitus considered them similar to
Suiones (ancestors of modern
Swedes):
- "Upon the Suiones, border the people Sitones; and, agreeing with them in all other things, differ from them in one, that here the sovereignty is exercised by a woman. So notoriously do they degenerate not only from a state of liberty, but even below a state of bondage."