- Origin.
Scholars and
historians since then
viewed the
reports on Venedi/
Venethi by Tacitus,
Pliny and
Ptolemy as the
earliest historical attestation of...
- and
Jordanes (fl. c. 551), the Antes,
along with the
Sclaveni and the
Venethi, have long been
viewed as the
constituent proto-Slavic
peoples ancestral...
- term "Wends"
derived from the Roman-era
people called in Latin: Venetī,
Venethī [ˈwe.ne.t̪ʰiː] or Venedī [ˈwe.ne.d̪iː]; in Gr****: Οὐενέδαι, translit. Ouenédai...
-
additional sources: books, maps or oral tradition.
Jordanes wrote that the
Venethi,
Sclavenes and
Antes were
ethnonyms that
referred to the same group. His...
-
spoke the same language, but did not
trace their common origin back to the
Venethi but to a
people he
called "Sporoi". He
derived the name to Gr**** σπείρω...
- peoples" in the
modern sense of the term; Tacitus, when
describing the
Venethi,
Peucini and Fenni,
wrote that he was not sure if he
should call them Germans...
- of the East European, or
Slavic Venethi. It can be
inferred from Tacitus'
description in
Germania that his "
Venethi"
possibly lived around the middle...
