Iapydes

The Iapoden, also Iapyden (Latin Iapodes, Iapydes; Greek Ἰάποδες ) were a Celtic tribe whose settlement area from ocra Mountains ( area around Nanos and Birnbaumer Wald) in the karst at the upper Sava and north-east of Istria handed down to the valley of the Una. One of their main places was Arupium, today Prozor- Rama. This easternmost part of Noricum was included in the 1st century AD in the new province of Pannonia. Other important places in the Iapoden were Metulum, Raetinium (now Bihać ), Avendo (now Crkvina ) and Monetium (now Brinje ).

Neighbors of Iapoden were in the north, the Noric, where they are sometimes counted among the client base in the southwest and the Liburni Histri and in the east the Taurisci. It is not certain whether they were purely Celtic origin or mixed with the Venetian and Illyrian population, at least they have been largely Celticized. Strabo ( Geographika 4, 6, 10 ) indicate keltisierte Illyrians. The name Iapodes is apparently not of Celtic origin. They worshiped one God Bindus source, where a temple was dedicated near Bihać.

Since the year 171 BC, where they attacked and devastated Aquileia, the Iapoden opponents of the Romans were in some battles, for example, against Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (consul 138 BC) Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus (consul 129 BC. ) and to the time of Caesar against the Legio XV. In the year 34 BC, they finally had to deal with the future emperor Augustus peace and received their territories as part of autonomy ( praepositus Iapodum ). The civitas of Iapoden proven existed at least until the first half of the 2nd century AD