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From 27a64264f3192003600fe3024601f5ebb2830a72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trent Palmer Archives for Attention Span History
Who were the Veneti? This is not an easy question to answer.
+The Vistula Veneti +were called Wends, +by German-speaking people. But another theory is that Veneti is a diminutization +of venus, as per Latin origins. And for further confusion, Slavs living +near Germanic settlements were also called Wends.
+The Vistula Veneti hailed from Eastern Poland.
+The Adriatic Veneti +lived in a region that we now identify as "the area around Venice". +Indeed, this area is known by the name +Veneto, +or Venetia.
+Strabo, the Greek historian, conjectures that the Adriatic Veneti are +related to the Veneti of Brittany.
+The Veneti +of the Breton Peninsula, +were a tribe of Gauls which were defeated by +Julius Brunus Albinus, +in a +naval battle in 56 BC, +as part of Julius +Caesar's campaign to pacify Gaul.
+Part of the drama here was that the +Veneti were experienced in operating on the ocean, whereas the Romans +would have only ever known the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. +In particulary, ships sailed by the Veneti were faster than the Roman ships.
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