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  Baiocasses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are apparently the same as the group named Bodiocasses by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis historia:
"The province of Gallia Lugdunensis has...the Viducasses, the Bodiocasses, the Venelli...."
Their principal city was called by the Romans Civitas Baiocassium "City of the Baiocasses"; later it was given the Latin name Augustodorum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bajocasses   (329 words)

  
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During a few centuries which precede the Roman conquest, one can finally properly speak about Gallic, which is identified in these innumerable Celtes tribes which constitute Gaule and whose names reached us.
One can quote in the Apple-brandy Baïocasses in the west in the area of Bayeux, Viducasses in the center, around Vieux and Lexovii in the east, in the area of Lisieux.
This discovery made in the area of Quettreville will make it possible, after study, to know some a little more on the past of our area.
www.prospection.net /en/haches.htm   (1290 words)

  
 The Celtic Tribes of Roman Gaul
The Viducasses were one of the smaller Gaulish tribes with their territory being in a region that corresponds to modern Normandy (the plains of Caen), sited between the Baiocasses and Caletes tribes.
Etymologically the name Viducasses can be derived from the reconstructed proto-Celtic elements: *widu- (wood) and *kasso- (curly, woven, twisted — the sense being 'those woven together, 'tribe' or 'people').
Thus the Viducasses are the 'People of the Wood'.
www.celtnet.org.uk /gaulish-tribes.html   (17096 words)

  
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Their position has been determined with reasonable probability in this way.
, iv, 18, §107) mentions the Baiocasses, or, as he calls them, Bodiocasses, whose chief town was Augustodurus (Bayeux), and the Viducasses, whose chief town was Aregenua or Araegenue (Vieux, near Caen).
It seems more probable that they also possessed the territories of the Baiocasses and the Viducasses, and that, just as the Helvetii were divided into four pagi, or clans (i, 12, §4), so the Baiocasses, the Viducasses, and the Saii were part of the Esuvii (C.G., pp.
www.hhhh.org /perseant/libellus/commentaries/holmes/holmesgi.html   (13626 words)

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