diff --git a/content/veneti.md b/content/veneti.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bd1779 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/veneti.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Title: Veneti +Date: 2021-08-07 +Tags: Wends, Veneti, Brittany, Italy +Category: Etymology + +Who were the Veneti? This is not an easy question to answer. + +### Baltic Veneti +The *[Vistula Veneti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti){target="_blank"}* +were called *[Wends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends){target="_blank"}*, +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. + +### Adriatic Veneti +The *[Adriatic Veneti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_Veneti){target="_blank"}* +lived in a region that we now identify as "the area around Venice". +Indeed, this area is known by the name +*[Veneto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneto){target="_blank"}*, +or *Venetia*. + +Strabo, the Greek historian, conjectures that the *Adriatic Veneti* are +related to the Veneti of Brittany. + +### Breton Veneti +The *[Veneti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneti_(Gaul)){target="_blank"}* +of the [Breton Peninsula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany){target="_blank"}, +were a tribe of Gauls which were defeated by +[Julius Brunus Albinus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimus_Junius_Brutus_Albinus){target="_blank"}, +in a +[naval battle in 56 BC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimus_Junius_Brutus_Albinus#During_the_Wars){target="_blank"}, +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. + +### Recommended + +* [Wends, Sorbs, and Other Slavs - History of Germany Podcast 40](https://play.acast.com/s/historyofgermany/040-wends-sorbs-andotherslavs){target="_blank"} +* [The Celtic Holocaust - Hardcore History 60](https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-holocaust/){target="_blank"} +* ["De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10657){target="_blank"}