Anartier
The Anartier (also Anarten , Latin Anartes , Greek Ἄναρτοι Anartoi ) are an ancient ethnic group of eastern Central Europe about which little is known with certainty.
history
The name Anartes appears in Caesars De Bello Gallico , where they are located on the eastern edge of the Hercynian forest , which extended to the Dacians and Anartians ( ad fines Dacorum et Anartium ). Together with the Cotini , the Anarti are named as one of the subjugated gentes in the poorly preserved " Elogium of Tusculum ". According to Tacitus , the Cotini named in the inscription were a Celtic-speaking people, the Dacians (probably from the Thraciansdescended from), settled in the western Black Sea area and expanded to Moravia at the time of Caesar . After the disintegration of the Burebista Dacian Empire in 44 BC. In the sources appear the names of several probably Celtic ethnic groups, in addition to Osi , Cotini and Teurisci also the Anartii .
Ptolemaeus counts the Anartoi to the tribes resident in Dacia, together with Teuriskoi and Koistobokoi .
In summary, one can say that the Anartians were an ancient ethnic group on the southeastern edge of the Germania magna between the 1st century BC. BC and the 2nd century were, presumably in the northeastern part of the Danube region of Pannonia , i.e. in today's Hungary or Romania. A Roman milestone found near Nagy-almas, Nógrád county in Hungary refers to a nearby vico An [artorum] , a "village of the Anartians". It cannot be said whether these speakers were of a Celtic or a Germanic language or Dacians or were members of a Celtic-Dacian mixed culture.
literature
- Wilhelm Tomaschek : Anartes. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2063 f.
- Philip Smith: Anartes . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caesar De Bello Gallico 6.25.2
- ↑ Inscriptiones Latinae selectae , No. 8965; Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae XIII 3, 1937, 75-77, No. 91. Cf. Helmut Castritius : Osi. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , p. 313. ( online )
- ^ Miklós Szabó: Hungary. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 31, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018386-2 , p. 455.
- ↑ Ptolemaeus Geographike Hyphegesis III, 8.3
- ↑ CIL 3, 8060