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thumb|Coins of the Curiosolitae, 5th-1st century BC.|alt=|289x289px The Coriosolites or Curiosolitae were a Gallic people dwelling on the northern coast of present-day Brittany during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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thumb|Coins of the Curiosolitae, 5th-1st century BC.|alt=|289x289px The Coriosolites or Curiosolitae were a Gallic people dwelling on the northern coast of present-day Brittany during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

== Name == They are mentioned as Coriosolitas (var. coriosolitos, curiosolitas, curiosolitas) and Coriosolites (var. coriosultes, coricoriosuelites, cariosu-) by Caesar (mid-1st c. BCE), and as Coriosvelites by Pliny (1st c. CE).

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