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The history of Veneto is partly common to that of the largest region known as Triveneto or Tre Venezie, in the North-East of the Italian peninsula, situated between the Adriatic Sea and the whole chain of the Eastern Alps, which includes Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

History and ancient history

Already inhabited in the prehistory, at first the settlement of the Euganeans, was in the protohistoric era occupied by the people of the Veneti. Tito Livio, native of Padua, begins his monumental history of Rome with the myth of Antenore that, fleeing from Troy on fire and leading a group of Trojans and Eneti, allied people from Paflagonia, arrives in the current Gulf of Venice. In the land stretched between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea, after expelling the Euganeans, these people are set up who together are called Veneti.
Antenore himself would have been the founder of Padua. According to a similar legend Diomede would have founded Adria while Clodio founded Chioggia. There are many important cities, such as Concordia, Oderzo (between the oldest - IX-VIII century BC), Este, Treviso, Belluno, Altino, Vicenza and perhaps Verona.

The first historical repeated where the presence of the Veneti is on the Stele of Isola Vicentina where there is the engraving Venetkens, adjective derived from the name of the population itself.

The anatolian origin of the Adriatic Venets is not accepted by all ancient authors and is still subject to discussion. The ancient sources hand down the existence of various threads of the Venetian ethnìa, from Brittany, to Lusazia, between Germany and Poland, to Epirus in Greece, to Anatolia. Tied to the Venetian ethnic would be different names (e.g. Vindelicia, region corresponding to the present Bavaria, Vindebona - the present Vienna) and the names attributed to peoples of Slav origin in different European languages. According to some scholars, it would be these testimonies of a single Indo-European civilization extending from the Baltic to the Adriatic, which can be traced back to the so-called peoples of the Campi delle Urne.

The process of Romanization of Venetia took place gradually and without traumas or conquests, as Venetians and Romans were allied peoples. Political-military relations with the Romans began in the 3rd century BC. : in 225-222 Venetians and Chenomans formed a military alliance with Rome against insubria, boi and gesati, providing a contingent of 20,000 men according to Polibio. The galls will be beaten in the historic battle of Clastidium in 222. In 181 BC. the deduction of the Latin colony of Aquileia led to a strengthening of the traditional relations of collaboration between Veneto and Rome. Aquileia rose to the limit of the territory of Veneti; Although the region had been placed under the provincial regime (province of Gallia Cisalpina), the Romanization of the local elite continued without pause. After the social war in 89 BC. Gneo Pompeo Strabone promos