 The name is still used for one of modern Germany's federal states ("Bundesländer").The Thuringians do not appear in classical Roman texts under that name, but some have suggested that they were the remnants of the Suebic Hermanduri, the last part of whose name ("-duri") could represent the same sound as ("-thuri") and the Germanic suffix "-ing", suggests a meaning of "descendants of (the [Herman]duri)".This people were living near the Marcomanni.