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The "Genauni" in the Roman province of Raetia (yellow)

The Genaunen or Genauni were a Rhaetian , later Romanized tribe in the area of ​​today's Tyrol . The Precision are mentioned in various ancient texts, mostly in close connection with the Breonen . They are located in the Inn Valley , especially around the Achensee . They were part of the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture and were often incorrectly referred to as Illyrians ( Strabo ) or relatives of the Vindeliker ( Horace ).

The Genaunen belonged to the tribes that Drusus found on his conquest in 15 BC. BC defeated. You can find them in the list of tribes that Emperor Augustus had recorded on the inscription at the Tropaeum Alpium in La Turbie above Monaco in memory of this Alpine campaign.

Horace mentions them in an ode celebrating the campaign (carm. 4,14,9ff.), From which one could infer their outstanding resistance: milite nam tuo / Drusus Genaunos, inplacidum genus / Breunosque velocis et arcis / Alpibus inpositas tremendis / deiecit ... ("Because with your army Drusus threw down the wooers, a peaceless people, and the quick Breunen as well as the castles lying on the terrible Alpine heights").

In contrast to the Breonen, the Precursors, like the other Rhaetian Alpine tribes, disappeared from history during the course of Roman rule.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Beck u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 25, Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11017-733-1 , p. 266.
  2. ^ Richard Heuberger: The beginning of the history of Tyrol. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Volume 31, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck 1951, pp. 257f.
  3. ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 3, 136.
  4. ^ Franz Schön: The beginning of Roman rule in Raetia. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-4079-2 , p. 124.
  5. ^ Albert Jäger: About the Rhaetian Alpine people of the Breuni or Breonen. In: Session reports of the philosophical-historical class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 42.10. Gerold, Vienna 1863, pp. 351–440, here: p. 

literature

  • Peter Anreiter : Breonen, Genaunen and Fokunaten. Archaeolingua Alapítavány, Budapest 1997, ISBN 963-8046-18-X .
  • Josef Thaler: The precise names, their domiciles and origins. In: Archive for history and antiquity of Tyrol 2 (1865), pp. 118-133.