Garumner

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Salardú in the Val d'Aran (center)
Campaign in Aquitaine 56 BC Chr.

The Garumner or Garunner ( Latin Garumni even Garunni ) were a presumably Celtic tribe , whose residence in the later Roman province of Gallia Aquitania was. Your residence was probably in the Val d'Aran , the high valley of Garumna ( Garonne ), taking its name from the Garumnern derive their main place should Salardunum (today Salardú, a district of Naut Aran in the Spanish province of Lleida have been). However, some authors also suspect their place of residence in the historic county of Bénauges (today in the Gironde department ) and assume that they were a sub-tribe of the Vasaten .

There is no connection with the spicy fish sauce garum, which is famous throughout the Roman Empire , despite the fact that it has the same name - it was mainly produced in Baetica (today Andalusia ) and Aremorica (today Normandy and Brittany ).

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 ; to be named the Tarbeller , bigerriones , Ptianier , Vasaten (also Vocaten ) Tarusaten , elusates , Gater , ausci , Garumner, Sibulaten and Cocosaten . Whether the names, including those of the Garumni , are clearly Celtic cannot be stated with certainty. Some modern authors include some of the Celtiberians .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Caesar: De bello Gallico 3, 27: Maxima Pars Aqutaniae sese Crasso dedit: Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Ptianii, Vocates, Tarusates, Elusates, gates, Ausci, Garumni, Sibulates, Cocosates: paucae ultimae nationesanni tempore confisae, quod hiems su facere neglexerunt.
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 204.