Cavii (tribe)

The Cavii were an Illyrian tribe.{{Cite book |last=Papazoglu |first=Fanula |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4076992 |title=The central Balkan tribes in pre-Roman times : Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci and Moesians |date=1978 |publisher=Hakkert |isbn=90-256-0793-4 |location=Amsterdam |oclc=4076992}}{{Cite web |title=Illyrian Tribes |url=http://albanianstudies.weebly.com/illyrian-tribes.html |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=My Albanian studies}} They lived close to Lake Shkodër. Their main settlement was Epicaria, which is thought to be probably located around modern-day Pukë.{{Cite web |title=Pukë |url=https://www.nomads-travel-guide.com/city/puke/ |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=Nomads Travel Guide |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last1=Souchier |first1=Margaret |last2=Hazlitt |first2=William |date=August 1998 |title=The Classical Gazetteer |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1223619 |journal=Taxon |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=782 |doi=10.2307/1223619 |jstor=1223619 |issn=0040-0262}} They are occasionally mentioned by ancient writers.{{Cite book |last=Livy |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2592966 |title=Rome and the Mediterranean : books XXXI-XLV of The history of Rome from its foundation |date=1976 |publisher=Penguin |others=Henry Bettenson |isbn=0-14-044318-5 |location=Harmondsworth |oclc=2592966}}

Gentius the Illyrian king during the third Illyrian war sent his half-brother Caravantius, detaching 1,000 infantry and 50 horsemen, attacked the Cavii, failing to capture one of their cities while ravaging the fields of the city of Caravandis.{{Cite book |last=Wilkes |first=J. J. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23689275 |title=The Illyrians |date=1992 |publisher=B. Blackwell |isbn=0-631-14671-7 |location=Cambridge, Mass., USA |oclc=23689275}}{{Cite web |title=Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 44, chapter 30 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0168:book=44:chapter=30 |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}