Carnutes
Sign in to saveThe Carnutes or Carnuti (Gaulish: 'the horned ones'), were a Gallic tribe dwelling in an extensive territory between the Sequana (Seine) and the Liger (Loire) rivers during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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The Carnutes or Carnuti (Gaulish: 'the horned ones'), were a Gallic tribe dwelling in an extensive territory between the Sequana (Seine) and the Liger (Loire) rivers during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
== Name == They are mentioned as Carnutes by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Livy (late-1st c. BC), Carnūti by Tibullus (late-1st c. BC), Karnoútōn (Καρνούτων) and Karnoúntōn (Καρνούντων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Karnoũtai (Καρνοῦται) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Carnunta in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).
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