Vasaten

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Aquitaine tribes
Campaign in Aquitaine 56 BC Chr.

The Vasaten ( Latin Vasates , also Vassei , with Caesar Vocates ) were probably a Celtic tribe , whose residence was in the later Roman province of Gallia Aquitania . The city of Bazas ( civitas basatica , "City of Vasaten") and its surroundings, the Bazadais ( Gascon Vasadés ) southeast of the Gironde , remember the tribal name. The original city name of Bazas, Cossium , could be derived from the Cocosaten . Vasates possibly comes from the Basque word * baso ("forest"), but a connection with * uad ("ford") is also possible.

It is generally accepted by the art that the mentioned at Caesar strain of Vocaten with these Vasaten is identical, as are the Basabocates at Pliny . Some authors refer to the latter Basaboiates as a people between the Vasats and the Boians .

During the Gallic War , a sub-general of Caesar , 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 ; be named the Tarbeller , bigerriones , Ptianier , Vocaten, Tarusaten , elusates , Gater , ausci , Garumner , Sibulaten and Cocosaten ( De Bello Gallico III 27). Whether the names, including those of the Vasates , are Celtic cannot be stated with certainty. Some modern authors include some of the Celtiberians .

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 .
  • Jacques Lemoine: Toponymie du Pays Basque Français et des Pays de l'Adour: Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées. Picard 1977, ISBN 2-7084-0003-7 .
  • 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. 825 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaius Iulius Caesar: Commentarii de bello Gallico III 27: Maxima Pars Aqutaniae sese Crasso dedit: Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Ptianii, Vocates, Tarusates, Elusates, gates, Ausci, Garumni, Sibulates, Cocosates: paucae ultimae nationes su , hoc facere neglexerunt.
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 204.