Eleuteten
The Eleutetes ( Latin Eleuteti ) were a Celtic tribe who lived on the banks of the Aveyron River in the Roman province of Gallia Aquitana in what is now the Aveyron department in southern France . They are sometimes referred to as the sub-tribe of the Kadurkers under the name Eleuteti Cadurci .
The Arverni prince Vercingetorix had 52 BC. BC can also induce the Eleuteten to participate in the all-Gaulish war . Together with other southern Gaulish tribes, under the leadership of the Arverni, they formed a contingent of around 35,000 warriors in the relief army for Alesia .
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 .
- Jules C Sar: Caius Julius Caesar Ad Codices Parisinos Recensitus Cum Varietate Lectionum, Julii Celsi Commentariis, Tabulis Geographicis ... Quibus Suas Adjecerunt NL Achaintre Et NE Lemaire ... Nabu Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-275-93017-9 , S. 252 (572 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason: Encyclopedia of European Peoples . In: Facts on File library of world history . tape 2 . Infobase Publishing, New York 2006, ISBN 1-4381-2918-1 , pp. 225 (English, 506 p., Limited preview in Google book search).