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The '''Gotini''' (in [[Tacitus]]), who are generally equated to the '''Cotini''' in other sources, were a [[Gauls|Gaulish]] tribe living during [[Roman empire|Roman]] times in the mountains known today as the [[Sudetes]] approximately near the modern borders of the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]]. |
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The spelling "Gotini" is only known from one classical source, the ''[[Germania (book)|De Origine et situ Germanorum]]'' of [[Tacitus]].<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0083:chapter=43&highlight=gotini Tac. Ger. 43]</ref> Tacitus clearly distinguishes the Gotini from the similarly named [[Gotones]], who he discussed in the immediately following passage.<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0083%3Achapter%3D44 Tac. Ger. 44]</ref> |
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Tacitus described the Gotini as speaking a [[Gaulish language]] and working, to their degradation, in mining. Like their neighbours in the mountains, the [[Osi (ancient tribe)|Osi]], they had to pay tribute to both the neighbouring [[Quadi]] and [[Sarmatians]]. Although the Gotoni lived in the midst of [[Suebi|Suevic]] peoples, they were not [[Germanic (language)|Germanic]]. |
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[[File:Roman Empire 125.png|thumb|right|300px|The Roman empire under [[Hadrian]] (ruled 117-38), showing the location of the '''Cotini''' Celtic tribe in the northern [[Carpathian]] mountains ]] |
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They probably lived in the area of modern western [[Slovakia]], [[Moravia]], and [[Silesia]]. They may have constituted all or part of the archaeological [[Púchov culture]], with its center in [[Havránok]]. |
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It has also been suggested that the same people are reported by [[Claudius Ptolemy]] as the Κῶγνοι.<ref>{{citation|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=gothini-geo&highlight=cotini}}</ref> Ptolemy places them south of the [[Sidones]], south of the Askiburgi mountains (probably the modern [[Sudeten mountains]]) but north of [[Hercynian forest|Hercynian valley]].<ref>[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/2/10.html]</ref> So as in Tacitus they are near the [[Buri (Germanic tribe)|Buri]] and north of the Quadi. |
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The tribe was apparently first mentioned in 10 BC in the so-called [[Elogium of Tusculum]], an inscription from the time of [[Augustus]] found in [[Tusculum]], south of Rome. It records how a [[Legatus|legate]] of [[Illyricum]] entered relations of peace or war with the Cotini and [[Anarti]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://books.google.be/books?id=D5IxWxCgFFwC&pg=PA213|page=213|title=The Provincial at Rome: And, Rome and the Balkans 80BC-AD14|first=Ronald |last=Syme}}</ref> |
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The "Cotini" are later mentioned by [[Dio Cassius]] in connection with the [[Marcomannic Wars]]. He reports that around 172 AD, the Cotini asked the Romans for land if they would attack the Marcomanni, and that they failed to do so, leading to their destruction.<ref>[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/72*.html]</ref> |
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It has been suggested that to punish them, [[Marcus Aurelius]] moved all or some of the Cotini to Lower [[Pannonia]], which happened not later than 180 AD. Roman inscriptions of 223-251 AD mention a Pannonian people known as the "''cives Cotini''" - the Cotini people. |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Bohemia]] |
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[[Category:Gauls]] |
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[[Category:Ethnic groups in the Czech Republic]] |
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[[Category:Ancient Slovakia]] |
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[[Category:Ancient Celtic peoples]] |
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