Ségovellaunes

The Ségovellaunes are a Gallic people average valley of the the Rhone, by the way of which many remote regions persist. They are called Ségalaunes by Ptolémée, which must be a derivative of Ségovellaunes ( Sego-Uellaun - “ forts ”). Geographically located on both sides the Rhone, they probably overflowed between Erieux and Doux, in current Haut- Vivarais. Royans could also be a dependence of these people. perhaps

Ségovellaunes are close to the Allobroges in North, the Voconces in the East, the Tricastins in the South, the Helviens in South-west and touch with the Vellaves in the North-West. Submitted into 120 before our era, the people ségovellaune revolt into 61 before Jesus Christ. Vis-a-vis Let us be, a Roman colony, Valence, is installed on their territory about the middle of the Ier century before Jesus-Christ; she is attested by Pline Old the but is located in territory cavare (“ in agro Cavarum ”), which poses problem as for the statute of Ségovellaunes compared to the powerful city of the Cavares, in the South.

Them Oppidum could be the site of Malpas with Are, where excavations carried out in the Années 1960 allowed the first observations of protohistoric habitats . With the foot of the '' oppidum '', in the district of Brégoule, of the traces of habitat and craft industry of fifth century BC were partially excavated.

Malpas could also be the city of Solo (Soïo?), where Allobroge Catugnat is beaten by Dominius into 69 before J.C. Let us be, secular name, car its name of the Soio goddess, whose furnace bridge was found in 1848 on the oppidum. It is undoubtedly about the guardian goddess of the place.

Sources

Stephan Beaumont (sld) - History of Montélimar - Toulouse 1992 - ED. Privat.

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