Vistula Veneti
The name Veneti ( Venedi, Venetae, Venedae ) is used in ancient times by various authors to refer to a population east of Germania. On the concept may go the word " contact ": return (also "Morning Glory " ) to denote Slavic populations.
Background
Several ancient authors ( Pliny the Elder, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Claudius Ptolemy, Jordanes ) east of Germania mention a people of Veneti. The name is considered as a source of medieval and modern concept of contact for various West Slavic peoples, mostly in terms of faulty attribution. Even the statements of the ancient writers on this living on the very edge of the ancient literati known world people are not quite uniform. As Sarmatia, named after living in today's Ukraine and Southern Russia Sarmatians, ancient authors called the whole east of Europe east of the Vistula.
Pliny the Elder ( about 23 *, † August 25, 79 ) refers in his Naturalis historia on statements by Scandinavians in the country Aengina (east of the Baltic Sea), not less than Scandinavia, lived up to the Vistula (ie northeast and east of) the Sarmatae, Venetae, Skiren and Hirren.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 58; † 120 ) mentions in his Germania on the eastern edge of Germania the Peucini, Venice, and Fenni, in which he was not sure whether he should attribute the Germans or the Sarmatians. Its localization of Venedi limited to " between Fenni and Peucini ". As coastal residents, he mentions the Aesti gentes in a way against the Suiones ( ancestors of Sweden) that their settlement area is east then presumed to him nowhere mentioned Vistula estuary. Therefore, it is generally believed Tacitus had with Aesti refers to the people or the Baltic.
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100, † 175 ) describes the tribes west of the Vistula in his Geographike Hyphegesis in Germania chapter of the second book, the tribes east of the Vistula in Sarmatia chapter of the third book. Aesti or Aisti he nowhere mentions. On the coast of Venedischen Bay live with him the great nations of Uenedai, at the (lower) Vistula the smaller nations the same, to close Galindoi and Sudonoi, still more than a millennium later, the name Baltic tribes, and to the east, not far from the sea, the Veltae. Due to its geographical information is believed today that Ptolemy with Venedai designated a Baltic tribe, who lived at the Prussian Haffküste or the Gulf of Riga. With this strain, modern place names Ventspils, Venda ( river at Ventspils) and turning (former name of Cesis ) are brought into Latvia in connection.
Ptolemy locates the Uenedai ie roughly where the Aesti should live according to Tacitus.
Jordanes in the first half of the 6th century, mentions in his account of the history of the Goths, De origine actibusque Getarum, both Aesti and Venethi. While the Aesti resisted Gothic submission attempts that were Venethi as well as the antes and Sclaveni of Gothic king Hermanaricus at the - subject of the Goths spread to the southeast - from individual historians doubted today.