Strabo mentions the positions of the Sicambri and Menapii near the Rhine, with the Suevi further inland, as described by Caesar, and perhaps this is intended to represent the historical positions. Elsewhere Strabo mentions that the Rhine valley Germans have been mainly displaced: "there are but few remaining, and some portion of them are Sicambri". He apparently understood their position on the Rhine to literally be on the coast. With the German wars still on-going in his time, he describes them as being one of the most well-known Germanic tribes in his time.