Comani (tribe)
The Comani were a Gallic tribe or the inhabitants of an eponymous town dwelling in the region of Massalia (modern Marseille) during the Iron Age.
Name
They are mentioned as Comani by Pliny (1st c. AD) and by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).[1][2]
The ethnonym Comani may be compared with the personal name Comanus,[2] which is based on the Gaulish prefix co- attached to -mānos (perhaps 'good, favourable'; cf. Welsh mawn-, Ogam Irish Manu).[3]
Geography
Comani is mentioned as an
According to Barruol, they were part of the Saluvian confederation.[5]
References
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:34; Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:10:5.
- ^ a b c d Barruol 1969, pp. 208–209.
- ^ Delamarre 2003, p. 215.
- ^ de Hoz 2005, pp. 179–180.
- ^ Barruol 1969, pp. 187–188.
Bibliography
- OCLC 3279201.
- ISBN 9782877723695.
- ISBN 978-8478825721.