Gotini
The Gotini (in
The spelling "Gotini" is only known from one classical source, the
Tacitus described the Gotini as speaking a
Probably resident in the area of modern western Slovakia, Moravia, and southern Poland, they may have constituted all or part of the archaeological Púchov culture, with its center in Púchov.
It has also been suggested that the same people are reported by
The tribe was apparently first mentioned in 10 BC in the so-called Elogium of Tusculum, an inscription from the time of
The "Cotini" are later mentioned by
It has been suggested that to punish them, Marcus Aurelius moved all or some of the Cotini to Lower Pannonia, which happened not later than 180 AD. Roman inscriptions of 223-251 AD mention a Pannonian people known as the "cives Cotini" - the Cotini people.