Latobics
The Latobics or Latobriger ( lat . Latobrigi, Latobici) were supposedly an ancient Celtic tribe who settled next to the Helvetians in what is now southern Baden .
Together with the Helvetians and other tribes, they tried to flee westwards from the advancing Germans , but were militarily prevented from doing so by Roman legions under Gaius Iulius Caesar ( Battle of Bibracte 58 BC). This made the Celts to Foederati and resettled them east of the Rhine so that the Teutons could not open up any free settlement areas there.
Around the time of the birth of Christ, however, the pressure of the Teutons must have increased because the Celts emigrated again, but this time to the southeast to the new province of Pannonia . The Latobians settled in what is now Carinthia , on the Raab , in Slovenia and between the Save and Drava . They mingled with the indigenous population, the Illyrians ; their closest neighbors in their new home were the Varcians .
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- Gaius Iulius Caesar, De bello Gallico 1.5 and 1.28.
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- ↑ Max Eichheim: The battles of the Helvetii and Suebi against CJ Caesar. A critical study , Neuburg a. D. 1876, p. 18