Elusates
The Elusates were an Aquitani tribe dwelling in the modern Gers department, around present-day Eauze, France during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
They were subjugated in 56 BC by the Roman forces of Caesar's legatus P. Licinius Crassus.
Name
They are mentioned as Elusates by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD),[1] and as Elusa on the Tabula Peutingeriana (5th c. AD).[2]
The etymology of the ethnonym Elusates remains uncertain, but the root elus(a)- is generally presumed to be of Aquitanian origin. Alternatively, a connection with the Celtic root *elu(o)- ('numerous') has also been proposed.[2]
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Geography
The Elusates dwelled south of the Sotiates, north of the Onobrisates, east of the Tarusates, west of the Lactorates, and northwest of the Ausci.[3]
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During the Roman period, their chief town was known as Elusa (modern Eauze). Made a Roman colonia in the early 3rd century AD, Elusa is documented as the capital of the province of Novempopulana by the Notitia Galliarum in the 4th century.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The settlement of Tasta, mentioned by Pliny, may be identified with the city since the field that partly covers the ancient Elusa is called La Taste.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
See also
References
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- ^ Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, 3:27:1; Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
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- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found., Map 25: Hispania Tarraconensis.
Bibliography
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cleary, Esmonde; Simon, A. (2004). "Éauze / Elusa (Gers)". Supplément à la Revue archéologique du centre de la France. 25 (1): 417–418. ISSN 1951-6207.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nègre, Ernest (1990). Toponymie générale de la France (in français). Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-600-02883-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Olshausen, Eckart (2006). "Elusa". Brill's New Pauly. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e329640.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031699.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Agrinier, Pierre (1992). Le trésor d'Eauze. APAMP. ISBN 978-2-905564-20-7.
