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    Namnetes by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Namnē͂tai (Ναμνῆται) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). The etymology of the ethnonym Namnetes remains...
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    attested in Armorica include the Redones, Curiosolitae, Osismii, Esubii and Namnetes.[citation needed] Caesar reports in Bellum Gallicum that he sent in 57...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany:   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes...
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    The Namnete root of the city's name was introduced at the end of the Roman period, when it became known as Portus Namnetum "port of the Namnetes" and...
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    Menapii Castellum Menapiorum (Cassel) Morini Bononia (Boulogne-sur-Mer) Namnetes Condevincum (Nantes) Nantuates Tarnaiae (Massongex) Nervii (*Nerwī) Bagacum...
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    port on the south shore of the Loire, established opposite the port of Namnetes, located north of the Loire, Nantes - Contigwic of its Gaulish name - and...
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    parts of Côtes-d'Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine and Morbihan départements. The Namnetes, who lived in the current Loire-Atlantique département (in today's administrative...
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    Europe. It was inhabited by Gallic peoples including the Veneti and the Namnetes in the first centuries BCE before these territories were conquered by Julius...
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    slaves....' (Source: Caesar, cited by Nora Chadwick, The Celts.) and the Namnetes, further South, whose frontier was the Loire river. As a seaboard people...
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    Map of the Gallic people in modern Brittany around 150 AD.   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany:   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes   Non-Gallic...
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    upon the remnants of Corbilo, an Armorican Gaulish city populated by the Namnetes tribe, which (according to the Greek navigator Pytheas) was the second-largest...
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    Aremoricae. Their territory was located east of the Coriosolites, north of the Namnetes, west of the Aulerci Diablintes, and southwest of the Venelli and Abrincatui...
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    mentioned in the written records of the Greeks were the Redones and the Namnetes. They spoke dialects of the Gaulish language and maintained important economic...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany :   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes...
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    The Morini participated together with other coastal people (Lexovii, Namnetes, Ambiliati, Diablintes and Menapii) and tribes from Britain, in the uprising...
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    by gathering their navy and allying with the nearby Osismii, Lexovii, Namnetes, Ambiliati, Morini, Diablintes, and Menapii. Caesar appointed Decimus Brutus...
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    are named after the Gallic tribe. The Pictones dwelled south-east of the Namnetes, west of the Bituriges Cubi, north-west of the Lemovices, and north of...
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    influence but not part of it) Medulli Meduci – Médoc, southwestern Gaul Namnetes – Nantes, in Aremorica or Armorica Nantuates / Nantuatae Nitiobroges/Nitiobriges...
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    between several Gallic people, such as the Andecavi, the Redones and the Namnetes. Remains of Roman buildings were discovered in Béré in 1876, and the suburb...
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    are mentioned in Roman sources, like the Veneti, Armoricani, Osismii, Namnetes and Coriosolites. Strabo and Poseidonius describe the Armoricani as belonging...
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    universally accepted. Celtic coins often feature horses, and the Venetes, Namnetes, Coriosolites and Riedones created coins with chariots, as well as naked...
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  • Caesar's attack (56 BC), they applied for help to the Osismii, Lexovii, Namnetes, and others. (B. G. iii. 9, 11.) Caesar sent Quintus Titurius Sabinus against...
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    by fog in the winter. During the Gallic period the area belonged to the Namnetes, who were conquered by Julius Caesar in 56 BC. In a vase of terra-cotta...
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    Celtic and Gaelic tribes such as the Ligures, the Amoricans, and the Namnetes lived in the area before the arrival of the Romans. The commercial activities...
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