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Suanetes

{{Short description|Ancient tribe}}

The Suanetes were an Raetian tribe living in the Alps, near modern Chur (eastern Switzerland), during the Iron Age and the Roman era.

Name

They are mentioned as Suanetes (var. {{lang|la|suanene-, suannene-}}) by Pliny (1st c. AD),Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:137. and as {{lang|grc-Latn|Souánetes}} ({{lang|grc|Σουάνετες}}) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:12:2.{{Harvnb|Falileyev|2010}}, s.v. Suanetes.

According to Xavier Delamarre, the name could be interpreted as the Celtic Su-anates, from anatia ('soul').{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|pp=44, 306–207}} The ethnic name Cosuanetes appears to be linguistically related.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|pp=44, 306–207}}

Geography

The tribe was located in the valley of the Hinterrhein and in the Oberhalbstein region, near modern Chur (eastern Switzerland).{{harvnb|Talbert|2000}}, Map 19: Raetia.{{sfn|Frei-Stolba|2012}} Pliny mentions them conjointly with the Cosuanetes and the Rugusci.{{sfn|Frei-Stolba|2012}}

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.Pliny. Naturalis Historia, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pliny_elder-natural_history/1938/pb_LCL352.103.xml 3:20]. Weapons discovered at Tiefencastel and on the Septimer Pass provide further evidence to this account.{{sfn|Frei-Stolba|2012}}

References

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= Primary sources =

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  • {{Cite book|last=Pliny|title=Natural History|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1938|isbn=978-0674993648|series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Rackham|translator-first=H.|author-link=Pliny the Elder}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Strabo|url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL050/1923/volume.xml|title=Geography|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1923|isbn= 978-0674990562|series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Jones|translator-first=Horace L.|author-link=Strabo}}

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= Bibliography =

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  • {{Cite book|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|publisher=Errance|year=2003|isbn=9782877723695|author-link=Xavier Delamarre}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Falileyev|first=Alexander|title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=CMCS|year=2010|isbn=978-0955718236}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Frei-Stolba|first= Regula |date=2012|title= Suanetes |journal=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/024609/2012-07-20}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Schumacher|first=Stefan|title=Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde|last2=Dietz|first2=Karlheinz|last3=Zanier|first3=Werner|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2007|isbn=978-3110187847|editor-last=Beck|editor-first=Heinrich|edition=2|volume=35|chapter=Vindeliker}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Talbert|first=Richard J. A.|title=Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0691031699|author-link=Richard Talbert}}

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