Kalukonen (Rhaetian tribe)
The Kalukonen ( latin Calucones ; ancient Greek Καλούκωνες Kalukones ) were an ancient tribe in Rätien . It is not certain whether they were Raetians or Celts . They are to be distinguished from the Germanic tribe of the same name on the middle Elbe . They lived in the Rhine Valley south of Lake Constance, the exact location is disputed, possibly in the area around Chur or north of it in Vorarlberg .
In the year 15 BC The Kalukonen were subjugated by Tiberius during the Alpine campaign and listed as one of the 45 defeated Alpine peoples in the Tropaeum Alpium . Pliny the Elder also refers to this event . They are also mentioned in the geography of Ptolemy , who localized them in Raetia between the Suanetes , Riguskern and Vennontern .
swell
- Tropaeum Alpium
- Pliny the Elder : Naturalis historia 3,137
- Ptolemy : Geographika 2,12,2
literature
- Regula Frei-Stolba : Calucones. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gerold Walser : Studies on the history of the Alps in ancient times (= Historia individual writings. Issue 86). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06498-2 , p. 67.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Howald , Ernst Meyer : The Roman Switzerland. Max Niehans, Zurich 1940, p. 362.