Arusnates
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The Arusnates were a people of Cisalpine Gaul who inhabited the area of the modern Valpolicella region, around Fumane, northwest of Verona in Roman Italy. They are known almost exclusively through inscriptions. Under Roman rule their territory formed a rural district, the pagus Arusnatium, which depended on the municipium of Verona while retaining some administrative and religious autonomy. The community is noted above all for its religious life, which combined Roman cults with a number of indigenous deities attested nowhere else. Attempts to assign the Arusnates an ethnic identity (Etruscan, Raetic, Venetic and Celtic) have remained inconclusive.
The Arusnates were a people of Cisalpine Gaul who inhabited the area of the modern Valpolicella region, around Fumane, northwest of Verona in Roman Italy. They are known almost exclusively through inscriptions. Under Roman rule their territory formed a rural district, the pagus Arusnatium, which depended on the municipium of Verona while retaining some administrative and religious autonomy. The community is noted above all for its religious life, which combined Roman cults with a number of indigenous deities attested nowhere else. Attempts to assign the Arusnates an ethnic identity (Etruscan, Raetic, Venetic and Celtic) have remained inconclusive.
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