Carni
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The Carni (
.History
They are usually considered a
Their area of settlement isn't known with precision.
They are likely eponymous of the regions of Carnia, Carniola and Carinthia.[4]
The first historical date related to the arrival of the Carni is 186 BCE, when some 50,000 Carni, composed of armed men, women and children, descended towards the plains (in which they previously used to winter) and on a hill they founded a stable defensive settlement, Akileja.
Roman expansion
Roman Republic troops forced the Carni back into the Alps, destroyed their settlement, and founded a Roman defensive settlement at the northeast boundary. The new settlement was named Aquileia, after the former Celtic name Akileja. The triumvirs that founded that settlement were Publius Scipio Nasica, Caius Flaminius, and Lucius Manlius Acidinus.
In order to stem the Roman expansion and to acquire the fertile and more hospitable plains, the Carni tried to form alliances with the
The Carni submitted to the Roman Republic in the 2nd century BCE, accepting its commands and its concessions. They received then the permission to populate and colonize the plain between the Julian pre-Alps and the Livenza river they had already tried to occupy previously in conflict with both the Romans and Veneti.
In the meantime, Aquileia enlarged its importance. It became a
In Late Antiquity, under the pressure of
See also
- Ancient peoples of Italy
- Ancient history of Slovenia
- Carnia
- Friuli
References
- ^ Buti, Gianna G.; Devoto, Giacomo (1974). "Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia: Una introduzione".
- ^ Scholar Giacomo Devoto considered them as a Celtic people who entered in the Italian territory from the Alpine passes in the 4th century BC. See: Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università, 1974, pagina 56 [1].
- ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 183, "... We may begin with the Venetic peoples, Veneti, Carni, Histri and Liburni, whose language set them apart from the rest of the Illyrians. ..."
- ^ Sir William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography, Volume 1, p. 522
Bibliography
- Grassi, Niccolò: Notizie storiche della Provincia della Carnia, Udine, fratelli Gallici alla Fontana, 1782, VIII+224 p.
- ISBN 978-88-16-43628-2
- Kruta, Venceslas: La grande storia dei celti. La nascita, l'affermazione e la decadenza, Newton & Compton, 2003, 512 p., ISBN 978-88-8289-851-9
- Kruta, Venceslas & ISBN 978-88-04-47710-5
- Violante, Antonio; introduzione di Venceslas Kruta: I Celti a sud delle Alpi, (Silvana, Milano), 1993 (series: Popoli dell'Italia Antica), 137 p., ill., fot.; 32 cm; ISBN 88-366-0442-0