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thumb|upright=1.5|Coins of the Namnetes The Namnetes were a Gallic tribe dwelling near the modern city of Nantes during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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thumb|upright=1.5|Coins of the Namnetes The Namnetes were a Gallic tribe dwelling near the modern city of Nantes during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

== Name == They are mentioned as Namnitō͂n (Ναμνιτῶν) by Polybius (2nd c. BC) and Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Namnetes by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Namnē͂tai (Ναμνῆται) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).

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