Anartes

The Anartier (also Anarten, latin Anartes, Greek Ἄναρτοι Anartoi ) are an ancient ethnic group of East Central Europe, on the little is known for certain. The name appears in Caesar's De Bello Anartes Gallico, where they are located on the eastern edge of the herkynischen forest that stretched up to the Dacians and Anartiern (ad fines Dacorum et Anartium ). Together with the Cotini the Anarti be one of the subject mentioned in the gentes of them poorly received " Elogium of Tusculum ." The Cotini mentioned in the inscription were, according to Tacitus, a Celtic -speaking people, the Dacians (presumably derived from the Thracians ), settled in the western Black Sea region and stretched at the time of Caesar as far as Moravia. After the disintegration of Dacian empire became the Burebista 44 BC appear in the sources the names of several presumably of Celtic ethnic groups, in addition to Osi, Cotini and Teurisci the Anartii.

Ptolemy counts the Anartoi to the resident tribes in Dacia, along with Teuriskoi and Koistobokoi.

In summary one can say that the Anartier were an ancient ethnic group in the south-eastern edge of the Germania magna between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century, probably in the north-east of the Danube part of Pannonia, so in today's Hungary or Romania. One at Nagy- almas, Nógrád found in Hungary Roman milestone refers in any case to a located near vico On [ artorum ], ie, a "Village of Anartier ". Whether these speakers were a Celtic or a Germanic language or Dacians or members of a Celtic- Dacian mixed culture can not be said.