Atrebates (Celtic people)
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- Work cat.: The coinage of the Aterebates and Regni, 2000.
- Oxford companion to British history, 1997:s.v. Atrebates (a British tribe and civitas)
- Roman-Britain,org, 11 April 2001(Atrebates of southern Britain, inhabiting Berkshire, and in part Wiltshire, Hampshire and Surrey; capital at modern Silchester)
- Britannia.com, 18 April 2001(index gives single entry, Atrebates, for tribes in England and France)
- Smaller classical dictionary, 1937:s.v. Atrebates (people in Gallia Belgica, in modern Artois, a corruption of their name)
Wikipedia description:
The Atrebates (Gaulish: *Atrebatis, 'dwellers, land-owners, possessors of the soil') were a Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region. After the tribes of Gallia Belgica were defeated by Caesar in 57 BC, 4,000 Atrebates participated in the Battle of Alesia in 52, led by their chief Commius. They revolted again in 51 BC, after which they maintained a friendly relationship with Rome, as Commius received sovereignty over the neighbouring Morini. The quality of their woollens is still mentioned in 301 AD by Diocletian's Price Edict. An offshoot of the Belgic tribe probably entered Britain before 54 BC, where it was successively ruled by kings Commius, Tincommius, Eppillus and Verica. After 43 AD, only parts of the area were still controlled by king Claudius Cogidubnus, after which they fell under Roman power.
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