Dindari or ''Dindarii'' ( el, Δινδάριοι), was a tribe that was a branch of the
Scordisci
The Scordisci ( el, Σκορδίσκοι) were a Celtic Iron Age cultural group centered in the territory of present-day Serbia, at the confluence of the Savus (Sava), Dravus (Drava), Margus (Morava) and Danube rivers. They were historically n ...
. They dwelled by the
Drina Valley, of present-day
Bosnia and
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
.
After the Roman conquest of the Scordisci, the civitas of the Dindari was formed (''Dindariorum'', listed by
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...
within
Dalmatia), whom a fragmentary inscription appears to locate in the
Skelani
Skelani (Serbian Cyrillic: Скелани) is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Location
Altitude: 242 m
According to the 1991 census the population of the town was 1123 - 95 ...
area.
[Pliny Nat. Hist. III 142; L’Année Epigraphique 1910, 216 cf. A. and J. S ˇAS ˇEL, Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia inter annos MCMII et MCMXL repertae et editae sunt (Situla 25, Ljubljana 1986) p. 83 no. 1544: (is) m(anibus)P. A ..princ ps? civitatisDinda iorum ...]
References
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Ancient tribes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ancient tribes in Serbia
Celtic tribes of Illyria