The Genauni (Gaulish: *Genaunoi, earlier * Gēnomnoi, 'the natives') or Genaunes were a Gauls tribe dwelling in the eastern valley of the Inn river, in Tyrol, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as
Genaunos by
Horace (1st c. BC),
[Horace. Carm., 4:14:10.] as
Genaúnōn (Γεναύνων) by
Strabo (early 1st c. AD),
[Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:3:3.] and as
Genaunes by Pliny (1st c. AD).
[Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20.]
The ethnic name Genauni is a latinized form of Gaulish * Genaunoi (sing. Genaunos), which can be translated 'the natives'. It stems from an earlier form * Géno-mnoi, based on the stem gen(o)- ('descendants, family').
Geography
The Genauni lived in the eastern valley of the Inn river, in
Raetia. Their territory was located north of the
Focunates, east of the
Breuni, south of the
Estiones, Licates and Cosuanetes, west of the
Vennones.
[, Map 19: Raetia.]
History
They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the
Tropaeum Alpium.
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