Varcians

The Varcians ( Latin Varciani ) were, according to Ptolemaios ( Geographike Hyphegesis II 15), a Celtic tribe in the upper valley of the Save in the south of the Roman province of Pannonia . Its main town is said to have been a place mentioned by the ancient authors, Varceia , but it cannot be localized. Their closest neighbors were the Latobics , who originally settled next to the Helvetians in what is now southern Baden , under Germanic pressureHowever, peoples had to move to the southeast. It has not yet been established whether the Varcians had a similar fate. During the Pannonian uprising in 6 to 9 AD, it is inscribed that Varcians were recruited by the Roman army.

literature

• Balduin Saria : Varciani. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII A, 1, Stuttgart 1955, Col. 363-365.
• John J. Wilkes : The Illyrians. Blackwell, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5 , pp. 81, 256.