Dobunni
The Dobunni were a British tribe in what is now England . They settled the area to the north of Somerset , Avon and Gloucestershire . Their settlements were laid out as hill forts. Its main town was the Roman Corinium Dobunnorum (today: Cirencester ), the second largest city in Roman Britain and later probably the capital of the province of Britannia prima . The geographer Claudius Ptolemy explicitly mentions Corinium (which he called Corinion ) as the chief town of the Dobunni.
The Dobunni minted coins even before the arrival of the Romans. These coins indicate that their territory could have consisted of a northern and southern part for a time, as different coins have almost the same time of origin. The names of some rulers are known from the coins.
The Dobunni apparently submitted to the Romans without a fight, as the Roman historian Cassius Dio reports in his description of the campaign of Emperor Claudius to conquer Britain in AD 43. Cassius Dio speaks of the Bodunni in this context, but historians agree that the Dobunni are meant by this. They then formed a civitas in the province of Britannia .
The kings known so far are (some names are only given in abbreviated form on inscriptions and coins, which is indicated here by the square brackets):
- Anted [...]
- Bodvoc
- Catti [...]
- Comux [...]
- Corio
- Eisu [...]
- Inam [...]
In Roman times, Corinium Dobunnorum was still the capital of the civitas. Other important places were Magnis , Ariconium , Salinae and Durocornovium . The Roman colony of Glevum was practically on the territory of the civitas, but was administratively separate.
literature
- Emil Huebner : Dobuni . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 1250.
Web links
- Dobunni on roman-britain.org (English)