On Buildings

If those crossing the Danube river were saved within our Roman borders. Indeed, the Gepids, from whom two tribes were later divided, the Lombards and the Avars, settled in the regions around Singidunum and Sirmium, etc.

[They are] fair-haired, tall, and good in appearance, and they use the same laws, and their religious practice toward God is similar. For they are all of the Arian a 4th-century Christian sect holding that Christ is not equal to God the Father faith. They have one language, which is called Gothic, and it seems to me that they were all of one nation in ancient times, but later were distinguished by the names of those who led each group. This people dwelt from ancient times beyond the Ister original: "Ἴστρον" river. Afterwards, the Gepids took the regions around Singidunum original: "Σιγγιδόνον" and Sirmium original: "Σίρμιον", both inside and outside the Ister river, where they are established even to my own time.

And the Gepids, from whom the Lombards and Avars were later divided, inhabited the regions around Singidunum and Sirmium, etc.