Tricorii
Sign in to saveThe Tricorii were a Gallic tribe living in the Drac valley, in the Dauphiné Prealps, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They are attested in ancient sources primarily in connection with Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC, and later with the Helvetii migration into Gaul in 58 BC during the Gallic Wars. The Tricorii did not form a civitas under the Roman Empire and appear to have been either subdued by Rome at an earlier date or assimilated into a neighbouring people after the Roman conquest.
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The Tricorii were a Gallic tribe living in the Drac valley, in the Dauphiné Prealps, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They are attested in ancient sources primarily in connection with Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC, and later with the Helvetii migration into Gaul in 58 BC during the Gallic Wars. The Tricorii did not form a civitas under the Roman Empire and appear to have been either subdued by Rome at an earlier date or assimilated into a neighbouring people after the Roman conquest.
== Name == They are mentioned as Trikórioi (Τρικόριοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Trigorios by Livy (1st c. AD), Tríkourous (Τρίκουρους) by Appian (2nd c. AD), and as Tricorios by Ammianus Marcellinus (4th c. AD).
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