 The Lombards were a major Suebian group who had influenced the region in the past, and they then moved more decisively into the region from the north, probably absorbing many other Suebian and non-Suebian groups along the way, before moving into Italy.They destroyed the kingdom of the Herules and replaced them as a new power in the area.In the Merovingian period, a new Suebian entity formed close to the Quadi homelands, the Bavarians, whose name references some type of ancestral connection to Bohemia.