The Leuques - Latin Leuci - are one of the Gallic Peuples.

Traditionally, it is considered that Leuques were the people which occupied the South of current Lorraine.

History

The lack of historical sources available for the Gallic time reduces to us to extrapolate the base of the territory of Leuques starting from posterior cuttings. Also, their territorial limits, like the majority of the people of the Gaulle, are defined in a theoretical way starting from the cartography of the medieval dioceses, those being regarded by the historians as emanating from the limits of the Gallo-Roman Cité S. The territory which rises from this regressive analysis characterizes by its very lengthened form. It is limited to the east by the line of the Vosgean tops, and to the west by the valley of the Marne. In north and the south, the determination of the territorial base of the city of Leuques rests on the toponyms of ancient origin and those of frontier significance, correlated in extreme cases diocésaines.

Establishment

Many strengthened sites are present in this vast area, without it being however possible to establish their contemporary character each time. Several categories can however be defined starting from surface. The enclosures of less than 10 hectares form a well defined group, represented particularly well in the south-eastern part of the territory allotted to Leuques, corresponding to the first reliefs of the Vosgean solid mass. The enclosures of more than 10 hectares and those which exceed the 20 hectares form two other categories represented in all the leuque territory. Their establishment can also be comparison with the principal valleys which they seem to control. Thus, the enclosure of Sion (Meurthe-et-Moselle) delivered many indices testifying to an active trade with the Italic peninsula (ceramics campaniennes, amphoras, metal crockery…). It constitutes probably a major site of the valley of the Madon established on the North-South axis connecting the the Saone to the the Moselle. The enclosure of the Ridge-Holy-Genevieve with Essey-the-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), of a surface of 20 hectares, is located on this same axis. More in the west, one finds enclosures on each river basin: Sorcy on the valley of the Meuse, Boviolles on the Ornain and Gourzon on the the Marne. If this enclosure, located today in the department of the Haute-Marne, is generally not regarded as pertaining to the leuque territory, the analysis of the many discoveries carried out since the 19th century challenges. Indeed, the massive presence on the oppidum of Châtelet with Gourzon of the frequent types of currencies in Boviolles at least suggests economic links between the two enclosures established with less than thirty kilometers one of the other.

Toul (in Latin Tullum ) was regarded a long time as being the capital of this tribe. Actually, the first capital of Leuques was the town of Nasium whose current vestiges make it possible to delimit a surface of 120 ha between the communes of Boviolles, Naix-with-Forging mills and Saint-Amand-on-Ornain. The Celtic opidum of Boviolles, occupies with him only a surface of 80 ha.

See too

• Celtic Camp of the Frieze (near the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges)
• Nasium the City of Leuques

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