thumb|right|300px|The Vellavii sited south of the Arverni— whose name is embodied in Auvergne The Vellavii (Gaulish: *Uellauī) were a Gallic tribe dwelling around the modern city of Le Puy-en-Velay, in the region of the Auvergne, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
thumb|right|300px|The Vellavii sited south of the Arverni— whose name is embodied in Auvergne The Vellavii (Gaulish: *Uellauī) were a Gallic tribe dwelling around the modern city of Le Puy-en-Velay, in the region of the Auvergne, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
== Name == They are mentioned as Vellaviis (var. vellabiis) by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Ou̓ellaoúioi (Οὐελλαούιοι, var. -άοιοι, -άϊοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Vellavi (var. velavi) by Pliny (1st c. AD), Ou̓éllaunoi (Οὐέλλαυνοι, var. Οὐέλλενες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Velavorum in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).