The Eneti were a tribe or people who lived in a landlocked part of Illyria north and/or northwest of Macedonia in classical antiquity.
[1] Along with the Taulanti, the Eneti were the oldest attested peoples expressly considered Illyrian in early Greek historiography.
[4] While discussing the former custom of Babylonian villages' holding an annual auction of young women for marriage,[5] he mentions that he has been told the Illyrian Eneti follow the same practice.
[1][6][7] In his 2nd-century work on the 88–63 BC Mithridatic Wars between the Roman Republic and Mithridates VI of Pontus, Appian states at one point that the consul Sulla killed time while awaiting a reply from Mithridates by launching reprisal attacks from Macedonia against the neighboring Eneti, Dardani, and Sintians, who had been raiding Macedonia before his arrival.
[8][9] The 12th-century Commentaries on Homer's Iliad written by Eustathius of Thessalonica includes the note that the 6th-century gazetteer Ethnica (Εθνικά, Ethniká) written by Stephanus of Byzantium mentioned the Eneti as dwelling beside the Triballi.