Anartes

The Anartes (or Anarti, Anartii or Anartoi)^[1] were Celtic tribes, or, in the case of those sub-groups of Anartes which penetrated the ancient region of Dacia (roughly modern Romania), Celts culturally assimilated by the Dacians.^[2][3]

Ptolemy's Geographia locates the Anartoi in the north of Dacia.^[4][5][6] Some groups of Anartes occupied parts of modern Slovakia and southeastern Poland.^[7]

The Dacian town of Docidava was situated in the territory of the Anartes, according to Pârvan.^[8]

The Anartophracti (or Anartofraktoi) are mentioned by Ptolemy. This tribe's name appears to be compound Latin-Greek name and may be related to the Anartoi resident in Dacia, Czarnecki argues.^[4] The Anartofraktoi were a northern Dacian tribe, according to Braune^[9][10] or mixed Dacian-Celtic, according to Pârvan.^[11]

In ancient sources, the earliest mention of the Anartes is in the Elogium of Tusculum (10 BC).^[12]

In De Bello Gallico, an account of his own campaigns in the Gallic Wars (58-51 BC), Julius Caesar wrote (VI.25.1-2):

The breadth of this Hercynian forest, which has been referred to above, is to a quick traveler, a journey of nine days. For it can not be otherwise computed, nor are they acquainted with the measures of roads. It begins at the frontiers of the Helvetii, Nemetes, and Rauraci, and extends in a right line along the river Danube to the territories of the Daci and the Anartes^[13].

Around AD 172, the Anartes refused to assist the Romans in their war against the Marcomanni. To punish them, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ordered the deportation of (all?) the Anartes from their native homelands to the Roman province of Pannonia Inferior, a movement which took place not later than AD 180.^{[citation needed]}