Cotini
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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.
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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.
The spelling "Gotini" is only known from one classical source, the De Origine et situ Germanorum of Tacitus. (Tacitus clearly distinguishes the Gotini from the similarly named Gotones, whom he discusses in the immediately following passage.)
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