Genauni
Sign in to saveThe Genauni or Genaunes (Gaulish: *Genaunoi, earlier *Gēnomnoi, 'the natives') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the eastern valley of the Inn river, in Tyrol, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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The Genauni or Genaunes (Gaulish: *Genaunoi, earlier *Gēnomnoi, 'the natives') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the eastern valley of the Inn river, in Tyrol, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
== Name == They are mentioned as Genaunos by Horace (1st c. BC), as Genaúnōn (Γεναύνων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), and as Genaunes by Pliny (1st c. AD).
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