A report on Veneto and Adriatic Veneti
The Veneti (also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.
- Adriatic VenetiAccording to ancient historians, who perhaps wanted to link Venetic origins to legend of Roman origins in Troy, the Veneti (often called the Palaeoveneti) came from Paphlagonia in Anatolia at the time of the Fall of Troy (12th century BC), led by prince Antenor, a comrade of Aeneas.
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Italy
2 linksCountry that consists of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and several islands surrounding it; its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region.
Country that consists of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and several islands surrounding it; its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region.
The Ancient peoples of pre-Roman Italy – such as the Umbrians, the Latins (from which the Romans emerged), Volsci, Oscans, Samnites, Sabines, the Celts, the Ligures, the Veneti, the Iapygians, and many others – were Indo-European peoples, most of them specifically of the Italic group.
In 1866, Victor Emmanuel II allied with Prussia during the Austro-Prussian War, waging the Third Italian War of Independence which allowed Italy to annexe Venetia.
Cisalpine Gaul
2 linksThe part of Italy inhabited by Celts (Gauls) during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
The part of Italy inhabited by Celts (Gauls) during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
The Veneti were an Indo-European people who inhabited north-eastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of the Veneto, Friuli, and Trentino.
Po (river)
2 linksLongest river in Italy.
Longest river in Italy.
The Po Delta wetlands have been protected by the institution of two regional parks in the regions in which it is situated: Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.
The Po is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.
Padua
1 linksPadua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.
After the Fall of Troy, Antenor led a group of Trojans and their Paphlagonian allies, the Eneti or Veneti, who lost their king Pylaemenes to settle the Euganean plain in Italy.
Vicenza
1 linksCity in northeastern Italy.
City in northeastern Italy.
It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River.
Vicentia was settled by the Italic Euganei tribe and then by the Paleo-Veneti tribe in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. The Romans allied themselves with the Paleo-Veneti in their fight against the Celtic tribes that populated north-western Italy.
Oderzo
1 linksOderzo (Opitergium; Oderso) is a comune with a population of 20,003 in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy.
The earliest settlement of the area can be dated to the Iron Age, around the 10th century BC.From the mid-9th century BC the Veneti occupied site and gave it its name.
Vittorio Veneto
1 linksVittorio Veneto is a city and comune situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the northeast of Italy, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers, borders with the following municipalities:
The area was occupied in ancient times by Veneti and perhaps Celts.
Venetic language
0 linksVenetic is an extinct Indo-European language, usually classified into the Italic subgroup, that was spoken by the Veneti people in ancient times in northeast Italy (Veneto and Friuli) and part of modern Slovenia, between the Po River delta and the southern fringe of the Alps.
Altinum
0 linksAltinum (in Altino, a frazione of Quarto d'Altino) was an ancient town of the Veneti 15 km SE of modern Treviso, close to the mainland shore of the Lagoon of Venice.
The abundance of watercourses gives the picture of a town deeply tied to water which was characteristic of towns in the Veneto.
Asolo
0 linksAsolo is a town and comune in the Veneto Region of northern Italy.
The town was originally a settlement of the Veneti, and was mentioned as Acelum in the works of Pliny.