Vennones
The Vennones or Vennonetes were a Gallic or Rhaetian tribe dwelling in the northern Alps, between Chur and Lake Constance, during the Iron Age and the Roman era.
Name
They are mentioned as Ouénnōnes by Strabo, as Vennonenses by Pliny, and as Ouénnōnetes by Ptolemy.The etymology of the name remains obscure. If Celtic, and not Rhaetic, it can be derived from the root ueno-, with a sound shift -n- > -nn- attested in other cases, or else from to uenno-, meaning 'chariot'.
Geography
The Vennones dwelled in the northern Alps, between Chur and Lake Constance. Their territory was located north of the Calucones, west of the Estiones, Focunates and Genaunes, south of the Brigantii.Pliny described the Vennones and Sarunetes as "Rhaetian tribes living near the sources of the river Rhine".
History
They were subjugated by the Roman forces of Publius Silius Nerva in 16 BC.The Vennonetes appear as the third tribe in the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium. In the secondary tradition of the text by Pliny the Elder their position in the list was exchanged with the Venostes and the Vennonetes appear as the fourth tribe.