Ancient Slovakia

thumb|350px|Map showing the approximate location of the Boii in Bohemia and in [[Italy. The contemporary La Tène culture is indicated in green tones, the preceding Hallstatt culture in yellow.]]

The Cotini, sometimes spelled Gotini (because it is found in some manuscript copies of Tacitus), were a Celtic-speaking tribe living during Roman times in the mountains approximately near the modern borders of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia.

thumb|Peoples of Pannonia. The territory of the Anartes is visible in the top right corner. The Anartes (or Anarti, Anartii or Anartoi) 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.

thumb|right|An original Biatec and its replica on a modern 5-Slovak koruna|koruna coin, which was in use until Slovakia joined the euro zone on January 1, 2009 right|thumb|Biatec sculpture in Bratislava at National Bank of Slovakia Biatec was the name of a person, presumably a king, who appeared on the Celtic coins minted by the Boii in Bratislava (the capital of Slovakia) in the 1st century BC. The word Biatec (or Biatex) is also used as the name of those coins. In the literature, they are also sometimes referred to as "hexadrachms of the Bratislava type". Biatecs, in fact hexadrachms and tet

thumb|GermanenAD50-it.png Vannius (flourished in 1st century AD) was the king of the Germanic tribe Quadi.

ancient tribe in Europe