Germania ( , ), also called Magna Germania (English: "Great Germania"), Germania Libera (English: "Free Germania") or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of the same name, was a large historical region in north-central Europe during the Roman era, which was associated by Roman authors with the Germanic peoples. The region stretched roughly from the Middle and Lower Rhine in the west to the Vistula in the east. It also extended as far south as the Upper and Middle Danube and Pannonia, and to the known parts of Scandinavia in the north. Archaeologically, these peoples correspond roughly to the Roman Iron Age of those regions. While apparently dominated by Germanic peoples, "Magna Germania" was inhabited by non-Germanic peoples as well, including Celts and Early Slavs and their precursors.