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SitonesThe Sitones were mysterious, or mythical, Germanic people. They are only mentioned in Tacitus (unless the name is connected with the Swedish Sithun): "Bordering on the Suiones are the nations of the Sitones. They resemble them in all respects but one - woman is the ruling sex. That is the measure of their decline, I will not say below freedom, but even below decent slavery." This may be a memory of a period in which the Svear (Svitjod) were ruled by a certain queen.
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