Vénètes

Assumptions

André Martinet makes the following assumption: Vénètes, populates language Indo-European were not localized towards the end of the OJ and the beginning of III with approximately of the current Poland. At that time, the dialects which were going to give rise to the Celtic languages , Italic, Germanic and Slavic were to still be largely intercompréhensibles. A part of them with due following towards the West the Celtic , for finally being completely celtized, whereas others were entaîné towards the South in the wake of the Italiques, whose they will also be subject to the linguistic influence. Lastly, some remain on the spot, where they are probably gradually germanisés, before undergoing the pressures of the Slaves, with which they will end up being melted (at the 5th century). The German ones then continue to designate their neighbors of South-east, who are now the Slavic ones, by the name of “Wendes”.

Vénètes of Italy

Vénètes (Latin Veneti , Greek old Ενετοί Enetoi ) of Italy lived in Venezia and were stockbreeders of famous horses. They would have pushed back in the mountains the Euganéens. They unceasingly fought their neighbors the Celtes, the Carnes, the Istriens and the Liburniens. They are announced as combined Romains to third century BC. They then provide auxiliaries to the Roman army during the Second Punic War. They then probably had to take refuge in the islands of the lagoon of Venice in front of the arrival of invaders. To fight the Gallic, they were combined in Rome and then accepted its hegemony easily. They are still announced in the islands of the Adriatique under Marc Aurèle (2nd century). One knows their language, the Vénète, thanks to a few hundreds of inscriptions. Their capital would have been Padoue, most beautiful of their fifty cities.

Vénètes de Gaulle

The Aremorica was inhabited in the south by Vénètes (Celtique Veneti ):

By their considerable navy, their nautical superiority good recognized and their commercial relations with the island of Brittany, Vénètes had become very powerful people, whose authority extended to far on all the littoral from Gaulle and Brittany Insulaire. They had a small number of ports located on this sea open and stormy with long distances from/to each other and made tributary almost all the navigators obliged to pass in their water| War of Gaules , III, 8| Jules César

Vénètes, powerful and influential maritime and commercial power, as later will be to it Venice or Saint Malo, had a strong organization and were equipped with a Sénat and had in particular an important fleet to trade with the British Isles and the Italy of which it diffused the wine and the oil (that the Romans convoyaient in Armorique since Bordeaux) in Armorique and insular Brittany starting from Vannes and of the current Malouine area, in particular with Hengistbury Head (not far from Bournemouth in the current Dorset) and with which it sold inter alia productions the Armorican saltings and pork-butcheries already well known and appreciated with Rome in addition to the tin, the Lead and the Copper of the large island.

More in the south of the Aremorica there were the Namnètes which remained in the mouth of the the Loire and gave their name to the town of Nantes. Namnètes are called “Samnites” by Strabon and Ptolémée. Namnètes were for a long time a simple tribe of Vénètes.

The Pictons were hostile in Vénètes as one can deduce it from their connection with the proconsul Jules César as of his first countryside and from the ships built or provided to the Romans by them, the Santons Gallic and other people to facilitate the ruin of Vénètes to them.

In 56 av. J. - C., the ships of Jules César provided by other Gallic people destroy the fleet vénète during the Bataille of Morbihan. The Parliament passed through the weapons and the women and the children sold like slaves.

Sources

Andre Martinet, Of the steppes to the oceans , Paris, Payot, 1986.

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