Bastarnae
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Bastarnae were a Celtic tribe in the first millennium BC. When they appear in the historical sources, they were settled in Galicia and Bukovina. They appeared on the lower Danube about 200 BC, and were used by Philip V of Macedon against his Thracian neighbours. Defeated by these the Bastarnae returned north, leaving some of their number (hence called Peucini) settled on Peuce, an island in the Danube.
Their main body occupied the country between the eastern Carpathians and the Danube. As allies of King Perseus of Macedonia and of Mithridates the Great, and lastly on their own account, they had hostile relations with the Romans who in the time of Augustus defeated them, and made a peace, which was disturbed by a series of incursions. In these the Bastarnae after a time gave place to the Goths, with whom they seem to have amalgamated, and we last hear of them as transferred by the emperor Probus to the right bank of the Danube.
Polybius and the authors who copy him regard the Bastarnae as Galatae; the Romans originally used German as a geographical rather than ethnic classification, leading to the confusion of the Bastarnae with Germans. See "Atlas of Ancient History", p50 by Colin McEvedy for a discussion of this point. Strabo claims ignorance of their origins; Tacitus expressly declares their German origin but says that the race was degraded by intermarriage with Sarmatians.
The theory that they were a Germanic tribe considers them to have been among the first East Germanic tribes to have emigrated from Scandinavia and as early as the 8th century BC[1] (http://www.arild-hauge.com/folkevan.htm). They were consequently among the first Germanic tribes to come into contact with the ancient world and the Slavs.de:Bastarnen