Bigerrions
The Bigerrions (Latin Bigerriones , more rarely Bigerri ) were a Celtic tribe of the Aquitans and settled on the northern edge of the Pyrenees in the Aquitaine region (the later Roman province of Novempopulana ) in southwestern France. They gave the Bigorre landscape its name. The name itself is likely derived from the Basque word ibai-gorri (red river, red stream).
The Bigerri surrendered with the tribes of Tarbeller , Vasaten , Elusaten , Auscer , Ptianier and others in 56 BC. BC Publius Licinius Crassus , a general of Gaius Julius Caesar . In his work Commentarii de bello Gallico , Caesar mentions the Bigerri among the tribes of Aquitaine.
Their fortified oppidum Bigorra (or Begorra) was on a hilltop above today's Saint-Lézer . At the beginning of the 4th century AD, the Gallo-Romans built a walled fortification, the Castrum Bigorra in the province of Novempopulana, on the same site .
literature
- Edmond Frezouls: Bigerriones. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 654.
- Max Him : Bigerriones . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 468.
Remarks
- ↑ Pliny the Elder ( Naturalis historia 4, 108) offers the name form Begerri , later authors like Gregory of Tours Bigerri .
- ^ Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 3, 27, 1.