Tarusaten

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Aquitaine tribes
Campaign in Aquitaine 56 BC Chr.

The Tarusaten ( Latin Tarusates ) were probably a Celtic tribe , whose residence was in the later Roman province of Gallia Aquitania , around the city of Taro ( Tartas ) in what is now the Landes department . According to some onomatologists (name researchers), the tribal name was formed by the Romans after that of the city. Another main place of the Tarusaten was Atura ( Aire-sur-l'Adour ). The Communauté de communes ("Community of Communes ") in this area is now called Pays Tarusate .

In the Gallic War , a Caesar general , the Legate Publius Licinius Crassus , marched in 56 BC. In Aquitaine (the later Roman province of Novempopulana ). After some victories of the Romans, most of the Aquitaine tribes surrendered ; to be named the Tarbeller , bigerriones , Ptianier , Vasaten (also Vocaten ) Tarusaten, elusates , Gater , ausci , Garumner , Sibulaten and Cocosaten . Whether the names, including those of the Tarusates , are clearly Celtic cannot be said with certainty. Some modern authors include some of the Celtiberians .

A rich coinage of the Tarusaten is attested by various archaeological finds.

literature

  • Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
  • Harry Mountain: The Celtic Encyclopedia (= Harry Mountain [Hrsg.]: Celtic Encyclopedia Series . Volume 1 ). Universal-Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-58112-890-8 , pp. 227 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason: Encyclopedia of European Peoples (=  Facts on File library of world history ). Infobase Publishing, New York 2006, ISBN 1-4381-2918-1 , pp. 794–795 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contributions to name research, Verlag C. Winter, Heidelberg 1973, p. 250. (French, accessed on December 3, 2013)
  2. ↑ Gaius Iulius Caesar: De bello Gallico 3, 27: Maxima Pars Aqutaniae sese Crasso dedit: Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Ptianii, Vocates, Tarusates, Elusates, gates, Ausci, Garumni, Sibulates, Cocosates: paucae ultimae nationesanni tempore confisae advice, , hoc facere neglexerunt.
  3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 204.
  4. ^ Fritz-Rudolf Künker: Coins of the Ancient World - Special Collection of Celtic Coins. Numismatischer Verlag Künker, 2013; P. 61. (accessed December 3, 2013)