Gotini

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The Gotini (in

Roman times in the mountains approximately near the modern borders of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia
.

The spelling "Gotini" is only known from one classical source, the

Gotones, whom he discusses in the immediately following passage.[2]

Tacitus described the Gotini as speaking a

Germanic
in their language.

Carpathian
mountains

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

Buri
and north of the Quadi.

The tribe was apparently first mentioned in 10 BC in the so-called Elogium of Tusculum, an inscription from the time of

Anarti.[5]

The "Cotini" are later mentioned by

Dio Cassius, negotiating with the Romans during the Marcomannic Wars. He reports that around 172 AD the Cotini offered to attack the Marcomanni in exchange for a grant of land, then ensured their own destruction by failing to uphold their end of the bargain.[6]

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.

References

  1. ^ Tac. Ger. 43
  2. ^ Tac. Ger. 44
  3. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
  4. ^ Ptolemy 2.10
  5. ^ Cassius Dio
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