Abrincatui
The Abrincatui were a
Roman period
.
Name
They are mentioned as Abrincatuos by Pliny (1st c. AD),[1] ’Abrinkátouoi (’Aβρινκάτουοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),[2] and as Abrincatis and Abrincateni in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).[3][4]
The city of Avranches, attested in the 6th c. AD as civitas Abrincatum ('civitas of the Abrincatui', Abrincae ca. 550, de Avrenchis in 1055–66), and the region of Avranchin, are named after the Gallic tribe.[5]
Geography
The territory of the Abrincatui mostly corresponded the later regions of
diocese of Avranches.[6] However, the area of Mortainais was mostly uninhabited until the Roman period, and remained sparsely populated at the turn of the first millennium AD.[7]
Two pre-Roman oppida were located in Le Petit-Celland and Carolles, with other settlements in Montanel and near Mortain.[8]
History
They were a client tribe of the
Venelli until the Roman occupation in 49 BC, when they were separated.[9]
References
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:107.
- ^ Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:8:8.
- ^ Notitia Dignitatum., oc 5:116, 5:266, 7:92, 37:11, 37:22.
- ^ Falileyev 2010, s.v. Abrincatui.
- ^ Nègre 1990, p. 151.
- ^ Levalet 1979, pp. 3, 15.
- ^ Levalet 1979, pp. 14, 19.
- ^ Levalet 1979, p. 15.
- ISBN 978-1-58112-890-1
Bibliography
- Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.
- Levalet, Daniel (1979). "De la cité des Abrincates au diocèse d'Avranches. 1) L'environnement archéologique". Annales de Normandie. 29 (1): 3–22. .
- Levalet, Daniel (2011). Avranches et la cité des Abrincates (Ier siècle avant J.-C.-VIIe siècle après J.-C.) recherches historiques et archéologiques. Société des antiquaires de Normandie. ISBN 978-2-919026-03-6.
- ISBN 978-2-600-02883-7.
