Ruteni
Sign in to savethumb|279x279px|Rutenan drachma (2nd–1st c. BC). The Ruteni were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the southern part of the Massif Central, around present-day Rodez, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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thumb|279x279px|Rutenan drachma (2nd–1st c. BC). The Ruteni were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the southern part of the Massif Central, around present-day Rodez, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
== Name == They are named in Latin as Ruteni (var. roteni and Rutheni) by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC); Pliny, and Lucan (both 1st c. AD), and in Greek as R̔outēnoì (Ῥουτηνοὶ; var. Ῥουταινοὶ) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and R̔outanoì (Ῥουτανοὶ) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).
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