It means land of the Swabians, land of wanderers or vagabonds, land of Alamanni. The Swabians were a group of Germanic tribes, mostly nomads. Name of a brotherhood of students from Heidelberg, Germany. At present there is a region called Swabia, which corresponds to the Southwest of Germany, between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Mombre of an asteroid, discovered by Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (Max Wolf).
