Veliocasses

The Norman Vexin

The Celtic tribe of the Veliocasses (also Velocasses or Velicasses ) controlled large areas in the Sequana Valley in pre- Roman Gaul , including the Vexin , which is named after him. Consistent with Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico , the Veliocasses were part of the tribal alliance of the Belger in the uprising in 52 BC. Against the Romans. That year they raised 3,000 men to support Vercingetorix and fought alongside the Bellovacs in the final uprising against Roman hegemony.

Under Augustus they were part of the Lugdunensis with the capital Rotomagus .

Pliny the Elder mentioned the Veliocasses in his Naturalis historia (4.18) and Claudius Ptolemy in his Oueneliokasioi

literature

John Haywood : Historical atlas van de Keltische beschaving , Tirion Uitgevers BV, 2001, ISBN 90 4390 350 7

Remarks

↑ George Long : Velocasses . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.

[1] George Long : Velocasses . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.