Dumnonians

The Dumnonians (lat. Dumnonii) were a Celtic tribe who settled in the south-west of Britain (today's Cornwall and Devon ). The first mention comes from the Greek traveler Pytheas in the 4th century BC. Most important city of the Dumnonians and the suburb of their civitas after the Roman conquest in the 1st century AD was Isca Dumnoniorum ( Exeter ).

After the Roman withdrawal from Britain during the 4th and 5th centuries, a Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia emerged , from which the Dumnonians settled parts of Brittany .

The tribe is eponymous for the name of the county of Devon and the geological formation named after it .

literature

• Heinz Cüppers : Dumnonii. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 175.
• Emil Huebner : Dumnonii . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1792.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , pp. 105-106.