Osismii
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.5|Coins of the Osismii. The Osismii or Ostimii were a Gallic tribe living in the western part of the Armorican Peninsula (modern Brittany) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- History
- Early accounts (5th–4th centuries BC)
- Gallic Wars (58–50 BC)
- References
- Primary sources
- Bibliography
- See also
thumb|upright=1.5|Coins of the Osismii. The Osismii or Ostimii were a Gallic tribe living in the western part of the Armorican Peninsula (modern Brittany) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
== Etymology == They are mentioned as Osismi (var. ossismi) by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), O̓sísmioi (Ὀσίσμιοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Ossismos by Pliny (1st c. AD), O̓sismíous (Ὀσισμίους; var. Ὀσίσμιοι, Ὀσισμαίους) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Osismis in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).