Caeroser

The Caeroser or Caserosen ( Latin: Caerosi, Caeroesi, Ceroesi, Cerosi ) were a Celto- Germanic tribe who lived in the 1st century BC. In the Eifel - Ardennes region .

The existence of such a trunk has not yet been proven archaeologically. The tribe is 57 BC. BC by Gaius Iulius Caesar in de bello Gallico together with the Eburones , the Condrusern and the Paemanern as one of four Germanic tribes on the left bank of the Rhine, who put up a contingent of 40,000 armed men in the war of the Belgians.

Linguists assign the tribe to the Celts .

source

• Gaius Iulius Caesar, de bello Gallico 2,4.

literature

• Günter Neumann :  Caeroesi. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1981, ISBN 3-11-006513-4 , pp. 309-310. ( online )
• Tilmann Bechert : Economy and society in the province of Germania inferior. In: Thomas Grünewald (Ed.): Germania inferior. Berlin 2001 (= RGA supplementary volume 28), p. 19.