The paper focuses its attention on the examination of the warfare between the Romans and natives who settled in the first three centuries north of the Middle Danube, i.e. in the region covering at present days the northern part of Lower Austria, southern Moravia and south-western Slovakia. The area situated in the immediate proximity of the most important provinces between the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains – Noricum and Pannonia – was the home of Germanic tribes, well known of them were Marcomanni and Quadi.

Three significant events took place during the first two centuries A.D. which might have led to major troop movements across the Danube. The first was the Augustan attack on the Marcomanni in 6 A. D., the second the war of Domitian and Nerva about the end of the 1st century, and finally the Marcomannic Wars in the second half of the 2nd century.

The primary aim of recent research on this topic is to place the Roman remains north of the Danube within the overall setting provided by the Romans during the first centuries A.D. In this context the most important task is to improve the dating of individual archaeological findings. That question was not unambigiously answered and in only several cases was it possible to find the dating material.

Quite new views of the problems of the Roman cultural and particularly military intervention in this territory have only been brought by archaeological discoveries and investigations of recent years.

This lecture aims to shed a fresh light on the Roman strategy and tactics in dominating and pacification of the region under review and considers the depth and nature of possible effects caused by the actual Roman military impact on the indigeneous environment.