Vulgientes

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The Vulgientes were a Gallic tribe living in modern Vaucluse (southeastern France) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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Name

They are mentioned as Vulgientes by Pliny (1st c. AD). [1]

Geography

The oppidum of Perreal Oppidum de Perreal vu de Saint-Saturnin-les-Apt.jpg
The oppidum of Perréal

Their territory was located in the Calavon valley, in present-day Vaucluse. [2]

Their pre-Roman chief-town may have been the oppidum of Perréal, later replaced during the Roman period by Apta Julia (modern Apt), whose inhabitants were known as the Aptenses under the Empire. [3] According to Guy Barruol, the Vulgientes did not constitute a people in their own right but rather formed a pagus corresponding to the inhabitants of this oppidum and its surrounding territory, and should be regarded as a subdivision of the Albici. [3]

In the 1st century AD, Pliny associated the Vulgientes to Apta Julia (Apta Iulia Vulgientium), which, according to Barruol, may reflect an archaic usage rather than a contemporary ethnonym. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Pliny, III 36.
  2. ↑ Barruol 1969, p. 206.
  3. 1 2 3 Barruol 1969, pp. 205–206.

Primary sources

  • Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0674993648.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Bibliography

  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC   3279201.
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