Suanetes

The Suanetes were an Raetian tribe living in the Alps, near modern Chur (eastern Switzerland), during the Iron Age and the Roman era.

suanene-, suannene-) by Pliny (1st c. AD),[1] and as Souánetes (Σουάνετες) by Ptolemy (2nd c.

[4] The tribe was located in the valley of the Hinterrhein and in the Oberhalbstein region, near modern Chur (eastern Switzerland).

[6] They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.

[7] Weapons discovered at Tiefencastel and on the Septimer Pass provide further evidence to this account.