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The Taurisci were a federation of Celts tribes who dwelt in today's Carinthia and northern Slovenia (Carniola) before the coming of the Ancient Rome (c. 200 BC). According to Pliny the Elder, they are the same as the people known as the Norici.Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia.
The identity of Taurisci and Norici has not yet been conclusively established: According to historian Géza Alföldy, the Norici were one tribe of the larger highlandic Taurisci federation, while the Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde defines the Norici as Celts settling in the Regnum Noricum in present-day Carinthia, with the Taurisci as their southeastern neighbours. Other people settling in the region were the Pannonians in the south-east of Carniola, the Iapydes, an tribe, in the south-west, and the Carni, a Adriatic Veneti tribe.
Teurisci, attested by Ptolemy in Dacia, were originally a group of the Celtic Taurisci from the Austrian Alps established in North-Western Dacia at the end of Iron Age.Parvan V, Vulpe R, Vulpe A (2002) Dacia Publisher: Editura 100+1 Gramar, page 165 established
In the middle of the 1st century BC, the Taurisci together with the Boii tried to expand eastwards into modern-day Hungary, but clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated. This war is often dated to the 60s or 50s BC or even precisely to 60/59 BC, but cannot be dated with that certainty. The numismatic material suggests that the clash may in fact have only happened by 41/40 BC. The events resulted in the decisive defeat of the Taurisci, leading to the annexation of their territory by the Dacians. Strabo vividly depicts the outcome, stating that: "Burebista not only conquered the Taurisci, but utterly eradicated them from existence."
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