Kadurker

Cadurcer on a historical map of France

The Kadurker , also Cadurcer ( Latin Cadurci ) were a Celtic tribe whose settlement area was between Dordogne and Aveyron , in the Quercy , an earlier province in southwest France . The neighboring tribes were the Nitiobrogen in the west and the Rutener in the east . Its main town was Uxellodunum , the exact location of which is uncertain and controversial to this day. The Eleuteti Cadurci were a sub-tribe .

The Arverni prince Vercingetorix had 52 BC. BC can also induce the Kadurker to take part in the all-Gaulish war . Together with other tribes in southern Gaul, they formed a contingent of around 35,000 warriors in the relief army for Alesia under the leadership of their Prince Lucterius . Uxellodunum was the last place Caesar found during the Gallic War in 51 BC. BC conquered by blocking the source vital for the defense of the city.

As craftsmen, the Kadurkers were particularly famous in Gaul for their linen manufacture; after Strabon ( Geôgraphiká , IV, 2,2) and Pliny ( Naturalis historia XIX, 2) even the bedding ( cadurcum ) was named after them.

The names of the city of Cahors ( Département Lot ), originally called Divona Cadurcorum , and the province of Quercy are derived from the Cadurci.

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 .
• Arnulf Krause: The world of the Celts: history and myth of an enigmatic people. 2nd edition Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38279-1 , p. 244.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 185.
• Harry Mountain: The Celtic Encyclopedia. Universal-Publishers, 1998, ISBN 9781-5811-2890-1 , p. 144.
• Max Him : Cadurci. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Sp. 1171.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marc Weber: Vercingetorix. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-638-55139-3 , p. 5.
2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 223-224, 235.
3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 1108.