Veragrer

The Veragrer (Latin Veragri ; Greek  Οὐάραγροι ) were a Celtic tribe in what is now the Swiss canton of Valais .

The Veragrer settled in the mouth of the Dranse in the Rhone . There was also their main town Octodurum , today's Martigny . Their neighbors were the Seduner and the Salasser . Other tribes in the Valais were the Ceutronen , Caturiger and Nantuaten . The Veragrer controlled the important pass of the Great Saint Bernard (mons Poeninus) .

The Veragrians and their capital Octodurus became 57 BC. Attacked and occupied by the Romans under the legate Servius Sulpicius Galba during Gaius Iulius Caesar's Gallic War . A counterattack by the Celts failed (see Battle of Octodurum ). The Romans only succeeded in submitting the Veragrians under Augustus .

literature

• Herbert Graßl: Veragri. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , column 23.

Web links

• François Wiblé: Veragrer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Remarks

1. ^ Strabo 4, 6, 6.
2. ↑ Titus Livius 21, 38, 9.
3. ↑ Caesar: De Bello Gallico 3, 1-6; Cassius Dio 39, 5, 2-4.
4. ↑ Pliny the Elder , naturalis historia 3, 137, in the enumeration of the subjugated tribes on the Tropaeum Alpium .