Segusiavi
Sign in to saveThe Segusiavi (Gaulish: *Segusiauī) were a Gallic tribe dwelling around the modern city of Feurs, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Other important sites within their territory were present-day Roanne, a flourishing center of trade and commercial production even before Roman rule, and Lyon, which was developed as an urban center by the Romans.
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The Segusiavi (Gaulish: *Segusiauī) were a Gallic tribe dwelling around the modern city of Feurs, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Other important sites within their territory were present-day Roanne, a flourishing center of trade and commercial production even before Roman rule, and Lyon, which was developed as an urban center by the Romans.
== Name == The name is given in Latin as Segusiavi by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), and in Greek as Segosianoi (gen. Σεγοσιανῶν) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Segousiantoi (gen. Σεγουσιάντων) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).