Veneller

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Map with details of the tribal area of ​​the Veneller

The Veneller ( Latin Venelli ) were a Celtic tribe . With the Venetians , Redons and Osismians , they were one of the tribes that had lived on the coast in northwestern France since the Bronze Age . They settled the Cotentin peninsula . The Esuvians are named as their closest allies .

The Veneller are first mentioned in writing by the Roman general Gaius Iulius Caesar in De Bello Gallico , his report on his wars in Gaul . His legate Publius Licinius Crassus subjugated the Veneller in 57 BC. In the following year they rebelled against Roman rule under their leader Viridovix , but suffered a crushing defeat against Quintus Titurius Sabinus . 52 BC They sent an auxiliary contingent of several thousand men to Vercingetorix, who was enclosed by Caesar in Alesia . After the conquest by the Roman Empire , the tribal area of ​​the Veneller became part of the province of Gaul. It belonged to the north-western coast of Gaul, called Aremorica by the Romans .

The most important place of the Veneller before the Roman conquest was about 17 km west of today's Carentan , the latter city under the name Crociatonum in the Roman imperial period initially acted as the new capital of the Veneller and later in this role by Cosedia (today Coutances ) was replaced.

The Veneller are sometimes called Unelli . Birkhan holds (to the root of etymological reasons * Wen , "love") and because of the shape O'uéneloi at Claudius Ptolemy ( Geographike hyphegesis II, 8,2.5) Venelli for correct.

swell

  • Gaius Iulius Caesar: De bello Gallico. The Gallic War . (translated and edited by Marieluise Deißmann). Stuttgart 1980

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2, 34.
  2. ^ Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3, 7; 3, 11; 3, 17.
  3. ^ Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7, 75, 4; Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 4, 107.
  4. ↑ Michel Polfer: Venelli. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , column 4.
  5. ↑ 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. 200, note 4.