Vennones
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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 (Οὐέννωνες) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Vennonenses (var. -'') by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Ouénnōnetes (Οὐέννωνετες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).
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