Aulerci
The Aulerci (dt. Aulerker ) were a Celtic people in Gaul .
The Aulerci populated northwest Gaul between the Loire and Seine rivers . Caesar mentions her as one of those peoples who lived by the sea and sailed the ocean . According to Titus Livius , the Aulerci or their sub-tribe, the Cenomani , belonged to a group of tribes led by Ambicatus , the King of the Biturigen , at the time of the legendary last Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus . Livy reports that these tribes experienced such rapid population growth that they decided to emigrate to avoid overpopulation . So the Gauls, including some of the Aulerci-Cenomani, emigrated under Bellovesus over the Alps to Gallia cisalpina and settled there.
The Aulerci people consisted of four sub-tribes:
- A large part of the Cenomani migrated - as mentioned above - over the Alps to Italy and settled there. The rest lived at Le Mans .
- The Eburovices lived in the area of Évreux , northeast of the Cenomani. Their main place was called Mediolanum Aulercorum. Her name means "yew fighter".
- The Diablintes or Diablinti lived in the area around a city called Noviodunum, today's Jublains .
- The Brannovices had broken away from the main tribe and had become clients of the Haeduer . The name can be translated as "raven fighter".
literature
- Max Him : Aulerci . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2402 f.
- Pierre Wuilleumier : Aulerci. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 754.
Remarks
- ↑ Caesar, de bello Gallico 2,34.
- ^ Livy, from urbe condita 5.34. On the Celtic procession to Italy cf. Henri Hubert, The Rise of the Celts , Constable, London 1987, p. 140 and Henri Hubert, The Greatness and Decline of the Celts , Constable, London 1987, pp. 19-22.
- ↑ Mention of the Cenomani among others by Caesar, de bello Gallico 7.75; Pliny , naturalis historia 4,107; Ptolemy , Geography 2,8,8.
- ↑ Mention of the Eburovices among others in Caesar, de bello Gallico 3.17; 7.75; Pliny, naturalis historia 4,107; Ptolemy, Geography 2,8,8-9.
- ^ So Bernhard Maier , Eburoviken. In: Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 107.
- ↑ On the Diablintes Ptolemy, Geography 2,8,7; Caesar, de bello Gallico 3.9; Pliny, naturalis historia 4,107.
- ↑ Caesar, de bello Gallico 7.75. On this relationship Hubert, The Greatness and Decline of the Celts , pp. 122–124, 224.
- ^ So Bernhard Maier, Brannoviken. In: Bernhard Maier, Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture , p. 50.