Nantuates
The Nantuaten (lat. Nantuates or Nantuatae ) were a Celtic tribe in the Alps who had their residence near Lake Geneva . Subjugated by the Romans during the reign of Augustus , their territory later belonged to the Roman province of Alpes Graiae . Its main town was Tarnaiae (today Massongex in the Saint-Maurice district of the canton of Valais ) and was also called Tarnaiae Nantuatium . The name is possibly derived from the Gallic word nanto "(valley").
In Strabo and Polybios , a possible route for Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC is suggested. The route from Lake Geneva through today's Valais, i.e. through the residential areas of the Nantuaten, Veragrer , Caturiger and Ceutronen , was adopted, since the Punians could even have carried wagons there, even if only with great difficulty.
In the 3rd book (1-6) of Caesars bellum gallicum it is reported that he gave the legate Servius Sulpicius Galba in 57 BC. BC sent with the Legio XII Fulminata to secure the Alpine passes in the area of the Nantuaten, Seduner and Veragrer. Galba solved his task, put his remaining two cohorts in winter camp in Octodurum (today Martigny ) and they were able to successfully repel another attack by the Alpine peoples.
The Tropaeum Alpium in today's La Turbie (built 7/6 BC) names the nantuates in the list of 16/15 BC. In the Augustan Alpine campaigns defeated Alpine peoples.
literature
- Yves Lafond: Nantuatae. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 703.
Web links
- François Wiblé: Nantuates. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Strabo: Geographika 4, 6, 11.
- ↑ Polybios: Historiai 3, 50.
- ↑ 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 , p. 94 and note 1.
- ^ Gaius Iulius Caesar: De Bello Gallico . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-71627-4 , p. 58 .
- ↑ CIL 5, 7817 ; Jaroslav Šašel : To explain the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium (Plin. Nat. 3, 136-137, CIL V 7871). In: Ziva antika 22, 1972, pp. 135-144.