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The Timachi were a Thracian tribe in living by present-day Timok, Serbia, then part of Moesia Inferior (87 AD). It[ clarification needed ] may have been an artificial creation by the Romans. [1] In the 1st century before Claudius conquest of Thrace, Pliny the Elder lists them as one of the Moesian tribes alongside Dardanians, Celegeri, Triballi and Moesi. [2] [3]

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The territorial unit of the Timachi was small, limited to a single valley system around the Danube where each tributary was guarded by an auxiliary garrison supervised by praefecti. [1]

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They have received or given their name to the Timok region (TIMACUS). [3]

The Celegeri and Timachi were replaced with the Romanized tribes of Tricornenses and Picenses respectively. [2] The Picenses of Pincum ( Gradište ) "replaced" the Timachi. [3]

Celegeri were a Celtic tribe, together with the Dindari a branch of the Scordisci that migrated to Illyria after the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. They inhabited Moesia Superior, and are registered by Pliny as living between the Dardanoi and the Triballi. They appear in north-westernmost Thrace in the 1st century BC. They were replaced by the Romanized Thracio-Celtic Tricornenses.

The Tricornenses of Tricornum were a Romanized Thraco-Celtic artificially created community by the Romans that replaced the Celtic Celegeri. The inhabitants of Tricornum were Celtic and Thracian, attested by epigraphic sources. After 6 AD, the Tricornenses were one of the four units of Upper Moesia alongside the Dardani, Moesi and Picenses. The ceremonial parade armour found at Ritopek belonged to a Tricornian soldier of Legio VII Claudia, dating to AD 258.

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References

  1. 1 2 Landscapes of change by Neil Christie, page 226
  2. 1 2 Pannonia and Upper Moesia by András Mócsy
  3. 1 2 3 Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott, The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69, Cambridge University Press, 1996


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