Illyrian people
TheEneti were atribe or people who lived in a landlocked part ofIllyria north and/or northwest ofMacedonia inclassical antiquity . They were neighbors of theDardani and theTriballi . Classical accounts of them frequently conflate them with the separateVeneti around the northernAdriatic Sea and theEneti around the southernBlack Sea .
Eneti Latin form of theGreek Eneti (Ancient Greek :Ἐνετοί ,Enetoí ).Herodotus calls them the "Eneti of theIllyrians " (Ἰλλυριῶν Ἐνετοί Illyriō̂n Enetoí ).[ 1]
Along with theTaulanti , the Eneti were the oldest attested peoples expressly consideredIllyrian inearly Greek historiography .[ 2] Dardani ,Triballi ,[ 3] Macedonians .
They are first attested in the 5th-century BCHistory Greek ethnographic historian Herodotus .[ 4] Babylonian villages' holding anannual auction of young women for marriage ,[ 5] [ 1] [ 6] [ 7]
In his 2nd-century work on the 88–63 BCMithridatic Wars between theRoman Republic andMithridates VI ofPontus ,Appian states at one point that theconsul Sulla killed time while awaiting a reply from Mithridates by launching reprisal attacks fromMacedonia against the neighboring Eneti,Dardani , andSintians , who had been raiding Macedonia before his arrival. Sulla is reported to have devastated their territory.[ 8] [ 9]
The 12th-centuryCommentaries onHomer 'sIliad written byEustathius of Thessalonica includes the note that the 6th-centurygazetteer Ethnica (Εθνικά Ethniká ) written byStephanus of Byzantium mentioned the Eneti as dwelling beside theTriballi .[ 10] [ 11]
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