Calètes

The Calètes are a Gallic people (see article Celtes) which remained in current the Pays of Caux, to which they gave their name, and Pays of Bray. The most important Oppida are the Ditches of Bénouville with Étretat (64 ha), the Hospital with Quièvrecourt (63 ha), the City of Files with Bracquemont (52 ha) and the Camp of Canada with Fécamp (20 ha). Their chief town was Caracotinum (Harfleur) then Juliobona (Lillebonne) .

History

Calètes are a Celtic people which, in addition to the geographical proximity, has shared interests with its Armorican or Belgian neighbors. Their Belgian origin (according to Jules César) or Armorican residence besides dubious.

The territory of Calètes which, arrived in the area at the IV E with other Belgian people , constituted the last known wave of Celtic migrants, was neighborly with that of the Véliocasses, the Ambiens and the Bellovaques of which they were customers. When the latter reflect on foot, in 57 av. J. - C., a Belgian coalition intended to try to counter the conquest by Jules César of the Gaulle Belgium, Calètes provided them a quota of 10.000 men. In -52, they sent to Vercingétorix a quota of: 20000 men with the army of help intended to try to help Alésia besieged by the Romain S. the following year, they unite with the revolt of the Belgian people carried out by Correos, chief of the bellovaque coalition of the people and véliocasse.

At the 5th century, when the authority of Rome started to decline, Calètes united, with the Namnètes, Vénètes, Coriosolites, Redones, Abrincates, Unelles, Lexoviens, Ésuviens, Viducasses, Andecaves, Aulerques (Diablintes, Cénomans and Éburovices), Véliocasses and Parisii, with the Vénètes within a vast Armorican confederation intended to demolish itself of the occupant.

The account of the military countryside of Jules César ( De Bello Gallico : “Comments on the War of Gaules”, delivers II , 4,9; deliver VII , 75,3-4, delivers VIII , 7,4) gives details on Calètes. The ancient authors to have spoken about Calètes are Strabon in its Géographie (delivers IV , 1); Pline Old the in its Natural history (delivers IV , 107) and Ptolémée in its Géographie (delivers II , 8).

Related articles

Sources and bibliography

  • Michel de Boüard, History of Normandy , Privat, Toulouse, 2001, p. 43-54.
  • Leon Drill, “the Gallic Time in the south-west of Belgium and the North-West of Celtic”, in Bulletin of the Company Norman of prehistoric studies , 1901 and 1902
  • Georges Dottin, the Gallic Language. Grammar, texts and glossary , Paris, Klincksieck, 1918, p. 239
  • Maurice Begouën Demeaux, Place names in the Country of Caux , Paris, of Artrey, 1977, p. 111
  • Sonia C. Hawkes and Gerald C. Dunning, “The Belgae in Gaul and Britain”, in Archaeological Newspaper , LXXXVII , 1930, p. 150-240
  • Stephan Fichtl, Gallic People, S front J. - C. , editions Wandering, Paris, 2004,
  • Claude Groud-Cordray, Gallo-Roman Normandy , Orep editions, Cully, 2007,
  • Venceslas Kruta, Celts, History and Dictionary , Editions Robert Laffont, coll “Books”, Paris, 2000.

Random links:Albanian Lek | Fuerzas armadas de arma de Liberia | Ogre | Graz | Reed gave | Body-without-body