The Calucones were a Gallic or Rhaetian tribe dwelling around present-day Chur (eastern Switzerland) during the Roman period.
They are mentioned as Calucones (var.Callucones, Allucones) by Pliny (1st c. AD), [1] and as kaloúkōnes (καλούκωνες; var. καλούκονες, κουλούκωνες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). [2] [3]
The etymology of the name remains debated. It could go back to a Celtic form calo-uco-on-, derived from the stem calo- ('call'). [3] Alternatively, it may be derived from a stem *calu- ('hard') attached to -cones ('wolves'), and translated as 'hard wolves'. [4]
An homonym tribe, the Kaloukones, lived further north, near the Germanic Suebi. [3]
The Calucones probably dwelled around present-day Chur (Curia), in the Canton of Grisons. [5] [6]
Their territory was located north of the Suanetes and Rugusci, west of the Focunates and Venostes, south of the Vennones. [7]
They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium. [1] [6]
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