Catari was the name of a tribe belonging to the
Venetic peoples that are sometimes confused with
Illyrians
The Illyrians (, ; ) were a group of Indo-European languages, Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan languages, Paleo-Balkan populations, alon ...
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[Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, , page 81, "... In Roman Pannonia the Latobici and Varciani who dwelt east of the Venetic Catari in the upper Sava valley were Celtic but the Colapiani of the Colapis (Kulpa) valley were Illyrians ..."]
See also
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Veneti (disambiguation)
Veneti or Venedi may refer to:
* Veneti (Gaul), an ancient Celtic tribe described by classical sources as living in what is now Brittany, France
*Adriatic Veneti, an ancient historical Italic people of northeastern Italy, who spoke an Italic langu ...
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Veneti (Gaul)
The Venetī (, Gaulish: ''Uenetoi'') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in Armorica, in the southern part of the Brittany Peninsula, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
A seafaring people, the Veneti strongly influenced southwestern Britton ...
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Reitia
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Ancient peoples of Italy
This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity. Among them, the Romans succeeded in Romanizing the entire Italian peninsula following the Roman expansion in Italy, which ...
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Prehistoric Italy
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Adriatic Veneti
Ancient peoples of Italy