Convener
Konvener ( lat. Convenae ) is the name of an Aquitaine people who settled on the Pyrenees in the headwaters of the Garonne .
The Latin name ( convena , refugees, also derogatory: people who ran along ), which first appeared in 24 BC. Is attested by Strabo in Greek form ( κονουενοι ), refers to an action by the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , who after his campaign in Spain around 72 BC. Chr. Celtiberian should have stems from the southern Pyrenees or even deported from central Spain and settled here, dealing with the autochthonous Aquitaniern mixed. While there is no archaeological evidence of large settlements before the time of Pompey, but the settlement may come at the expense of living there already under Roman rule Garumner .
The capital of the settlement area, Lugdunum Convenarum (derived from the Celtic god Lugus ), is today's Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges . In the early imperial period, the surrounding area was largely Romanized. There were many public buildings, u. a. the then famous thermal baths at Bagnères-de-Luchon . The area experienced an economic boom that lasted into the Middle Ages due to the cultivation of wheat on fertile soil, cattle breeding, limestone and marble quarries, salt extraction and good transport connections. Even the invasion of the Vandal 408 could not permanently interrupt this development. It was not until 585 that Lugdunum Convenarum was devastated by the Burgundians under King Guntram I for 500 years.
religion
The approximately 40 known local deities worshiped by the Conveners did not have Indo-European (possibly Proto-Basque) names, but were assimilated into the Roman world of gods. In addition, Lugdunum was a center of not only local worship of the god Abellio . Even before the Visigoths arrived , the region was Christianized in the 4th century.