![]() ![]() It remains unclear what was the relationship between the two groups. ![]() He locates them in two different areas: a northern group in northern Scandia ( Scandinavia), then believed to be an island and a southern group, apparently dwelling to the East of the upper Vistula river (SE Poland). 150 AD, mentions a people called the Phinnoi (Φιννοι), generally believed to be synonymous with the Fenni. The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy, who produced his Geographia in ca. Their location is uncertain, due to the vagueness of Tacitus' account: "The Venedi overrun in their predatory excursions all the woody and mountainous tracts between the Peucini and the Fenni". The Fenni are first mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in 98 A.D. The Fenni were an ancient people of northeastern Europe, first described by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in AD 98. Another location given by Ptolemy, in northern Scandinavia, is not shown as the map does not cover that region The map shows two possible locations of the Fenni, based on possible readings of Tacitus ( Livonia) and Ptolemy (upper Vistula river). ![]() Map of the Roman empire and surrounding peoples in AD 125. ![]()
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