Bajocasses
The Bajocasses or Bodiocasses or Baïocasses - Latin Baiocasses - were one of about sixty Gallic Peuples alive as a Gaulle during his invasion by Jules César, between 58 and 51 av. J.C.
The name of " Baïocasses" would come from the Gallic bodio “crow” and cassi “hair”. It would indicate " thus; those which have hair (black like) the corneille".
They are not mentioned in the Guerre of Gaules of César appearing in the texts only as from Ier century a. J.C. ( Pline H.N., IV, 107; Ptolémée, Géo., II, 8 ). The capital of the city of Baïocasses was at the time Gallo-Roman Augustodurum, today the town of Bayeux in the Calvados.
Baïocasses occupied the Bessin and the west of the current Apple-brandy, and initially had as neighbors the Unelles in the west and the south, and the east the Viducasses. To the Roman Lower Empire, the city of Viducasses was attached to that of Baïocasses, accentuating the decline of Aregenua, capital of Viducasses.
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