Cavares
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thumb|283x283px|right|Cavarian Denier (coin)|denier (1st c. BC). The Cavari or Cavares (Gaulish: *Cauaroi, 'the heroes, champions, mighty men') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the western part of modern Vaucluse, around the present-day cities of Avignon, Orange and Cavaillon, during the Roman period. They were at the head of a confederation of tribes that included the Tricastini, Segovellauni and Memini, and whose territory stretched further north along the Rhône Valley up to the Isère river.
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11 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- Territory
- Settlements
- History
- Early Roman period
- Roman period
- Archaeology
- References
- Primary sources
- Bibliography
thumb|283x283px|right|Cavarian Denier (coin)|denier (1st c. BC). The Cavari or Cavares (Gaulish: *Cauaroi, 'the heroes, champions, mighty men') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the western part of modern Vaucluse, around the present-day cities of Avignon, Orange and Cavaillon, during the Roman period. They were at the head of a confederation of tribes that included the Tricastini, Segovellauni and Memini, and whose territory stretched further north along the Rhône Valley up to the Isère river.
==Name== They are mentioned as () by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), by Pliny (1st c. AD), and by Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD), () by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as on the (5th c. AD).