Vocontier
The Vocontier ( Latin Vocontii ) were a Gallic tribe who, according to ancient authors, settled in the area between the Rhone , the Isère , the Alps and the Durance . The neighbors of the Vocontier were the Allobrogians in the north and the Salluvians in the south.
Dea Augusta Vocontiorium ( Die , Département Drôme , formerly: Dye) is called the northern capital of the Vocontier tribe . The place name is derived from the Gallic-Roman goddess Dea Andarta , who was worshiped here. The second capital was Vasio ( Vaison-la-Romaine , Département Vaucluse ).
In the years after 125/124 BC The Vocontier were subjugated by the Romans. The consuls Marcus Fulvius Flaccus and Gaius Sextius Calvinus defeated the Vocontier, Salluvius and Ligurians and thus founded the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis , whose name lives on in what is now French Provence (after the full Roman name Provincia Gallia Narbonensis ).
According to Strabon's geography , after adapting to Roman culture and way of life ( Pax Romana ), they were given a certain autonomy.
Roman auxiliary units
In the early imperial period , the following auxiliary units were recruited into the field of the Vocontier:
literature
- 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 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 331.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 175.
- ↑ Strabon, Geographie 4, 6, 4 ( English translation ).
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 244.