The Eravisci (Ancient Greek: Ἀραβίσκοι[1]) were a Celtic or Pannonian people who inhabited Transdanubia, including Gellért Hill, Dunaújváros, and Aquincum.
[3] The Eravisci worked with iron, created jewelry and pottery, and even minted their own coins out of silver.
[4] Most Celtic societies at this time did not use coins, so this makes the Eravisci stand out among other tribes.
Aquincum eventually stationed one legion of 6,000 men and 500 cavalry by 89 AD as part of the Roman border protection system.
The Roman author Tacitus described them as having a Pannonian language, and the same language and culture as a tribe to the north, the Osi: Elsewhere, he defined the Osi however only as being geographically Germanic (Germania defined here as being north of the Danube) although he believed that the Germanic=speaking neighbours, the Marcomanni and Quadi, were themselves newcomers in that area: