Coconut

Campaign in Aquitaine 56 BC Chr.

The Cocosaten , also Kokosaten , ( Latin Cocosates ) were probably a Celtic tribe whose residence was in the later Roman province of Gallia Aquitania in the western part of today's Landes department north of the Adour River . In the Middle Ages , the Barony Brassenx with the capital Arjuzanx was established there . In the south their land bordered on that of the Tarbeller , in the north on the original settlement area of ​​the Boier . The tribal name may derive from either the Basque * kokots "(chin") or the Proto-Basque * koiz, * coç ("hill", "hill"). The Romans called them Cocosates sexsignani , "Cocosates of the six banners", which suggests a union of six sub-tribes. The original city name of Bazas, Cossium , could be derived from the Cocosaten .

During the Gallic War , a sub-general of Caesar , the Legate Publius Licinius Crassus , marched in 56 BC. In Aquitaine (the later Roman province of Novempopulana ). After some victories of the Romans, most of the Aquitaine tribes surrendered ; the to be named Tarbeller, bigerriones , Ptianier , Vasaten (also Vocaten ) Tarusaten , elusates , Gater , ausci , Garumner , Sibulaten and Cocosaten ( De Bello Gallico III 27). Whether the names, including those of the Cocosates , are clearly Celtic cannot be stated with certainty. Some modern authors include some of the Celtiberians .

literature

• 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 .
• Dussel Jacques, Ohl Michel: Cocosates . Editions Publibook, 2013, ISBN 978-2-342-00178-5 , pp. 133 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
• Max Him : Cocosates. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 158.
• Jacques Lemoine: Toponymie du Pays Basque Français et des Pays de l'Adour: Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées. Picard 1977, ISBN 2-7084-0003-7 .
• Harry Mountain: The Celtic Encyclopedia (= Harry Mountain [Hrsg.]: Celtic Encyclopedia Series . Volume 1 ). Universal-Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-58112-890-8 , pp. 159 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 4, 108.
2. ↑ Gaius Iulius Caesar: Commentarii de bello Gallico III 27: Maxima Pars Aqutaniae sese Crasso dedit: Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Ptianii, Vocates, Tarusates, Elusates, gates, Ausci, Garumni, Sibulates, Cocosates: paucae ultimae nationes su , hoc facere neglexerunt.
3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 204.