Caletes

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Map of Gaul, 1st century, after Augustus' provincial reform

The Caleten ( Latin Calètes or Calētī) were a Celtic or Germanic tribe of Belger , whose settlement area in what is now Normandy between the coast and the River Seine was.

The Caletes are first mentioned in writing by the Roman general and author Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico , his report on his wars in Gaul . They were in 51 BC With the tribes of the Bellovacians , Ambians , Aulercer , Veliocasser and Atrebaten, under the leadership of Correus, involved in the resistance against the conquest of the north of today's France by Caesar. Caeser counts them among the Belges , tribes of primarily Celtic , but also partly Germanic origin, who differed from Gauls and Aquitans in language and culture. The Caletes are said to have come across the Rhine to their settlement area, so they are more of Germanic origin.

The settlement area of ​​the Caletes after their subjugation by Rome became part of the region of the Roman Empire called Gaul , with the provincial reform of the Roman emperor Augustus it became part of the province of Gallia Belgica .

The most important city of the Caletes was the port city of Caracotinum, today's Harfleur . Her name can still be found today in that of the city of Calais .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caesar: De bello gallico 2.4
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 196.

literature

  • Gaius Iulius Caesar: De bello Gallico. The Gallic War, translated and edited by Marieluise Deißmann, Stuttgart 1980
  • Joseph von Hefner: Geography of the Transalpine Gaul to C. Julius Caesars Commentaries de bello Gallico . Munich 1835
  • Carl C. von Leutsch : About the Belgen of Julius Caesar . Giessen 1844
  • Léon Coutil : L'Époque gauloise dans le sud-ouest de la Belgique et le nord-ouest de la Celtique . Louviers 1902
  • Sonia C. Hawkes, Gerald C. Dunning: The Belgae in Gaul and Britain . In: Archaeological Journal, LXXXVII, (Rom) 1930, pp. 150-240
  • Martin Berg, Miles Litvinoff: Ancestors: The Origins of the People and Countries of Europe . Wallingford 1992