Petrocorier

Aquitaine tribes, Petrocorier left

The Petrocorier or Petrucorier ( Gallic Petrocorii , Petrucorii , "the four tribes", "the four tribes"; from * petru- , "four" and * korjo- "armed forces") were a Celtic tribe in Gallia Aquitania in today's Dordogne department . The main town was Vesunna Petrucoriorum ( Périgueux ), which, like the Périgord, derives its name from that of the tribe. The Lizonne River was once the border river between the Gallic tribes of the Santonen in the northwest and the Petrocoriern in the southeast.

They belonged to the tribes who joined Vercingetorix in the all-Gallic uprising against the Romans. Vesunna then became a Roman center in this area.

The Petrocorians were famous in ancient times for their ironwork; according to Caesar , all Aquitans were born miners and metalworkers.

Helmut Birkhan suspects in the name Petrucorii (he translates as “the four armies”), as they are called by Caesar ( Bellum Gallicum 7, 75), an indication of a fixed division of troops and thus of a kind of small standing army of professional warriors. The same interpretation can be found in Bernhard Maier .

See also

• Tricorii

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 266.
• 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 .
• Yves Lafond, Eckart Olshausen : Petrocorii. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 670.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bernhard Maier: Small lexicon of names and words of Celtic origin. CH Beck OHG, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49470-6 , p. 74 (keyword “Heer”).
2. ↑ Richard Barber: The Companion Guide to Gascony and the Dordogne (=  Companion Guides ). Companion Guides, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1999, ISBN 1-900639-27-0 , pp. 170 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 1108.
4. ^ Lothar Wierschowski: The regional mobility in Gaul according to the inscriptions of the 1st to 3rd century AD . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-515-06720-1 , p. 129 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 1006.