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Veneti

This is an introduction from Wikipedia:
The Veneti (Enetoi Ενετοί in Greek) were an ancient people who inhabited north-eastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of the Veneto. They spoke Venetic, an independent Indo-European language, which is attested in approximately 300 short inscriptions dating from 6th to 1st centuries BC. Venetic appears to share several similarities with Latin and the Italic languages, but also has some affinities with other IE languages, especially Germanic as well as Celtic.

A legend about ancient Venetians:
The historian latin Tito Livio, gathering an ancient legend, tells that the Venetians, ancient people of the Paflagonia in Asia Minore, Troia’ allied, with a company of Troians leaded by Antenore, the mythic founder of Padua, came to the innermost part of the Adriatic sea, in search of a new country, and here, turned out the Euganeans who lived between the Alps and the sea, occupied that country. There was, besides, in the oceanic coast of the Gallia, another people who was said “Venetians”, and about this people tells us very much Julius Caesar; according to a greek writer, Strabone, these Venetians, who lived near the Ocean, may be colonists sent there by Venetians of the Adriatic sea. From the most ancient time, big was the venetian people’s remown, who practised habits similars to Galli’s habits, who were neighbourings, but they have had a different accent. When in 181 a.C. was founded the roman colony of Aquileia and a small time after was built the Postumian way, who from Aquileia crossed all the Padanian land to Genua, Venetia rised to an importance also greater and it became center of trades and the roman civilization’s outpost.

There are many mysteries about the origins of Eneti. There are other people with the same name, as you can see in these maps of the Venetic populations:


Were them the same people?
I'm searching about the origins of Veneti, and i realized that isn't easy... mysterious people. In a web-site i've found these words about these mysteries:

"In school we are perhaps just incidentally introduced to ancient Central European inhabitants like the Illyrians, Celts and the Veneti. Nobody tells us that the Veneti once inhabited the regions of present day Brittany, an extensive area of northern Europe, as well as ancient Paphlagonia, the Black Sea regions (north coast of Asia Minor) and Illyricum (the Balkans). Venedi were also a people who lived on the Baltic slope near the mouth of the Vistula River. Historians, also, make no effort to perceive the far-flung Veneti as single (unified) ethnic entity. These historians fail to “connect the dots” of the Veneti locales because they are not trying to derive their historically mentioned name from the etymology (word origins) or “root-name”. This is why the original settlement area of this Veneti nation is not properly defined. What is more, it seems that in world history literature the ethnic name “Veneti” is somehow kept in the background. Greeks, Celts, Etruscans, Romans, Illyrians and Germans are studied in substantial detail, but the Veneti are ignored. Some scientists even claim, disregarding evidence, that Veneti were only a mythological or mythical nation. This means that they have been made up! Indeed? If this is so, then where do all these numerous names come from (like Vends, Vinds, Enets, Henets etc.)? The settlements of the Veneti are almost all over Europe! Why are the Veneti being ignored by official science? Why do they remain a “mysterious” nation, despite overwhelming evidence for their existence in so many places? They even left a literary script and many inscriptions."

In other web-sites Veneti are associated with the mysterious "Boat-Peoples".

Now, i must find many data about Veneti and after i'll can put here the most true knowledges about...

Now i'm studying data of these web-sites, at the moment i don't know if they are scientific:
- http://www.veneti.info/
- http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/veneti.html
- http://www.paabo.ca/veneti/
- http://www.carantha.net/etruscans__veneti_and_slovenians.htm

i'm reading and confronting...

I'm searching a complete and serious phylogenetic tree of Indoeuropeans populations...

This is another document:

The archaeological search found that the origins of the Veneti - understandings as people - go back to the 1500-1100 B.C. approximately and take origins from the Civilization of Lusatia, in the territory between Polonia and Germany. Bearers of the Culture of Urnfields, penetrated through successive migrations in nearly all the parts of the European continent and in Asia Minor towards the 1200 B.C. approximately. After, they adopted various languages (of Germanic type or Neolatin), without change the own cultural and historical appearance, as an example: the organization of the village, the religion, the traditions, etc the language speech from the Veneti antichi was the venetico, an Indo-European language near the languages that today we define western Slavs, comprised Slovene. The Veneti adriatic after a long and balanced process of interpenetration with the Latin language, speaks one language Neolatin today, risen approximately at the beginnig of IX the century.


Drawn of the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas about the spread of the culture of the “Urnfields” or "Kurgan" (?).

The "Amber Road"



Veneti Trade



I've found articles in library about Veneti, but are in Italian... i'll put here informations in Italian and after i'll translate when i'll have more time!