Abrincatui
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The Abrincatui or Abricantui were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the south of the Cotentin Peninsula during the Roman period.
== Name == thumb|Location of the Abrincatui (centre-north of the map) They are mentioned as Abrincatuos by Pliny (1st c. AD), ’Abrinkátouoi (’Aβρινκάτουοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Abrincatis and Abrincateni in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).
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