Morini
Sign in to saveThe Morini (Gaulish: 'sea folk, sailors') were a Belgic coastal tribe dwelling in the modern Pas de Calais region, around present-day Boulogne-sur-Mer, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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The Morini (Gaulish: 'sea folk, sailors') were a Belgic coastal tribe dwelling in the modern Pas de Calais region, around present-day Boulogne-sur-Mer, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
==Name== They are mentioned as Morini by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), Morinoì (Μορινοὶ) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Morinos by Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD) and Tacitus (early 2nd c. AD), Morinō̃n (Μορινω̃ν) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), Mōrínous (Μωρίνους; acc.) by Cassius Dio (3rd c. AD), and as Morinorum (gen.) in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).
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