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Henryk Łowmiański also argued that both the Vistulans and the Lendians were tribes of White Croats, [8] but other scholars disagree. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Leontii Voitovych believed that the Vistulans were the main tribe among those Silesian and Lechitic tribes who invaded this territory, dividing the Croatian lands into Eastern and Western parts.
Map of the Western and Eastern Roman empire in the end of the 4th century AD, identifying the location of the Venedae (Veneti) in central and eastern Europe.. Among the Byzantine authors, the Gothic author Jordanes in his work Getica (written in 550 or 551 AD) [7] describes the Veneti as a "populous nation" whose dwellings begin at the sources of the Vistula and occupy "a great expanse of land".
Tribe: Baltic tribe dwelling in East Prussia (partially in modern Kaliningrad Oblast, part of the Russian Federation since 1991). Subdued by the Teutonic Order during the Prussian Crusade (1217–1274). Pechenegs: Protohistoric c. 860–1122 Tribes, khanates Penkovka culture: Prehistoric Archaeological culture: Principality of Peremyshl ...
Map showing Roman Dacia and surrounding peoples in 125 AD. The Bastarnae, Bastarni or Basternae, also known as the Peuci or Peucini, were an ancient people who are known from Greek and Roman records to have inhabited areas north and east of the Carpathian Mountains between about 300 BC and about 300 AD, stretching in an ark from the sources of the Vistula in present day Poland and Slovakia, to ...
Byzeres (The name of the historical region Odzrkhe is derived from the name of this tribe - Vidzerukh / Viterukh / Odzr(a)khe / Odzrkhe) Drilae / Sanni. Drilae (according to Arrian, Drilae and Sanni were the same people) (ancestors of present-day Zans) Sanni (ancestors of present-day Zans) Machelones-Macrones. Machelones (closely related to the ...
Tribes' names on the map are in Greek (although some are in a phonetic transliteration and not in Greek spelling). They spoke Goidelic (an Insular Celtic language of the Q Celtic type. According to Ptolemy's Geography (2nd century AD) (in brackets the names are in Greek as on the map): Autini (Aouteinoi - Auteinoi on the map, not the Greek ...
Nearly all of these peoples and tribes spoke Indo-European languages: Italics, Celts, Ancient Greeks, and tribes likely occupying various intermediate positions between these language groups. On the other hand, some Italian peoples (such as the Rhaetians , Camuni , Etruscans ) likely spoke non- or pre-Indo-European languages .
Each tribe was ruled by its own tribal aristocracy and chief. Many members of the Lusitanian tribal aristocracy were warriors as happened in many other pre-Roman peoples of the Iron Age . Only when an external threat occurred did the different tribes politically unite, as happened at the time of the Roman conquest of their territory when ...