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The Anartes (or Anarti, Anartii or Anartoi)Jan Czarnecki (1975) 120 were Celtic tribes, or, in the case of those sub-groups of Anartes which penetrated the ancient region of Dacia (roughly modern Romania), Celts culturally assimilated by the Dacians.Oltean Ioana A (2007) 47
Ptolemy's Geographia locates the Anartoi in the north of Dacia.Jan Czarnecki (1975) 119Ioana A Oltean (2007) Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization, , 2007, page 47Claudius Ptolemy, , translated by Edward Luther Stevenson, Dover Publications, New York, p. 82 Some groups of Anartes occupied parts of modern Slovakia and southeastern Poland."It is possible to separate the group of La Tène culture (Celtic settlement) in the Upper Tisza Basin. For the time being there are circa 160 sites noted. They can be divided into several distinct categories which include the following: settlements, production areas, sepulchral sites, i. e. burial grounds and single graves as well as various hoards (deposits of coins and tools). Moreover, there are three oppida: Zemplin, Bükkszentlászló and Galish-Lovačka. The chronology of the whole group lies between LT B1-LT D1/D2. Especially interesting is the problem of correspondence between this group and the group of sites in southeast Poland. Material connections are also documented in ancient sources. They allow to identify the group from the Upper Tisza river as the Anarti tribe and the group from southeast Poland as the Anartophracti, which is a part of the former. in: Marek Olędzki. "La Tène culture in the Upper Tisza Basin =La Culture de la Tėne dans le Bassin de la Haute Tisza". Ethnographisch-archaeologische Zeitschrift. Berlin. ISSN 0012-7477".
The Dacian town of Docidava was situated in the territory of the Anartes, according to Pârvan.Parvan (1926) 749
The Anartophracti (or Anartofraktoi) are mentioned by Ptolemy. This tribe's name appears to be compound Latin-Greek name and may be related to the Anartoi resident in Dacia, Czarnecki argues.Jan Czarnecki (1975) 119 The Anartofraktoi were a northern Dacian tribe, according to BrauneWilhelm Braune, Hermann Paul, Eduard Sievers (1916)Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Volume 41, M. NiemeyerSchutte, Gudmund (1917) 99 or mixed Dacian-Celtic, according to Pârvan.Parvan (1926) 222-223
In ancient sources, the earliest mention of the Anartes is in the Elogium of Tusculum (10 BC). InscrIt_13.3.91
In De Bello Gallico, an account of his own campaigns in the Gallic Wars (58-51 BC), Julius Caesar wrote (VI.25.1-2):
The breadth of this Hercynian Forest forest, which has been referred to above, is to a quick traveler, a journey of nine days. For it can not be otherwise computed, nor are they acquainted with the measures of roads. It begins at the frontiers of the Helvetii, Nemetes, and Rauraci, and extends in a right line along the river Danube to the territories of the Dacians and the AnartesC. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library..Around AD 172, the Anartes refused to assist the Roman Empire in their war against the Marcomanni. To punish them, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ordered the deportation of (all?) the Anartes from their native homelands to the Roman province of Pannonia Inferior, a movement which took place not later than AD 180.
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