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{{short description|Gallic tribe}}
The '''Abrincatui''' were a [[Gaul|Gallic]] tribe livingdwelling in the south of the [[Cotentin Peninsula]].{{Sfn|Nègre|1990|p=151}} They became a client tribe ofduring the [[Unelli|VenelliRoman period]] until the Roman occupation in 49 BCE, when they were separated.<ref name="Mountain1998">{{citation|author=Harry Mountain|title=The Celtic Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTbc1GIAwcIC&pg=PA115|year=1998|publisher=Universal-Publishers|isbn=978-1-58112-890-1|pages=115–}}</ref>
 
== Name ==
They are mentioned as ''Abrincatuos'' by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (1st c. AD),<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]],'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pliny_elder-natural_history/1938/pb_LCL352.201.xml 4:107].</ref> as ''Abrincatouoi’Abrinkátouoi'' (’Aβρινκάτουοι) by [[Ptolemy]] (2nd c. AD),<ref>[[Ptolemy]]. ''[[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis]],'' 2:8:8.</ref> and as ''Abrincatis'' (orand ''Abrincateni'') in the ''[[Notitia Dignitatum|]]''Notitia Dignitatum'']] (5th c. AD).<ref>''[[Notitia Dignitatum]]''. Abrincateni, oc 5:116, and 5:266, 7:92; Abrincatis, 37:11, and 37:22. </ref><ref>{{SfnHarvnb|Falileyev|2010|p=entry 1007a}}, s.v. ''Abrincatui''.</ref>
 
The city of [[Avranches]], attested in the 6th c. AD as [[Civitas|''civitas'']] ''Abrincatum'' in the 6th c. CE ('[[civitas]] of the Abrincatui', ''Abrincae'' ca. 550, ''de Avrenchis'' in 1055–10661055–66), and the region of [[Avranchin]], isare named after the Gallic tribe.{{Sfn|Nègre|1990|p=151}}
 
== Geography ==
The territory of the Abrincatui mostly corresponded the areaslater regions of [[Avranchin]] and [[Canton of Le Mortainais|Mortainais]]. It was inherited with only slight border changes by the ''[[civitas]]'' ''Abrincatum'' and, later, by the [[diocese of Avranches]].{{Sfn|Levalet|1979|pp=3, 15}} However, the area of Mortainais was mostly uninhabited until the Roman period, and remained sparsely populated at the turn of the first millennium AD.{{Sfn|Levalet|1979|pp=14, 19}}
 
Two pre-Roman [[Oppidum|oppida]] were located in [[Le Petit-Celland]] and [[Carolles]], with other settlements in [[Montanel]] and near [[Mortain]].{{Sfn|Levalet|1979|p=15}}
 
== History ==
They were a client tribe of the [[Unelli|Venelli]] until the Roman occupation in 49 BC, when they were separated.<ref name="Mountain1998">{{citation|author=Harry Mountain|title=The Celtic Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTbc1GIAwcIC&pg=PA115|pages=115–|year=1998|publisher=Universal-Publishers|isbn=978-1-58112-890-1}}</ref>
 
==References==
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=== Bibliography ===
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* {{Cite book|last=Falileyev|first=Alexander|title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=CMCS|year=2010|isbn=978-0955718236|location=|pages=}}▼
* {{Cite journal|last=Levalet|first=Daniel|date=1979|title=De la cité des Abrincates au diocèse d'Avranches. 1) L'environnement archéologique|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/annor_0003-4134_1979_num_29_1_5313|journal=Annales de Normandie|volume=29|issue=1|pages=3–22|doi=10.3406/annor.1979.5313|via=}}▼
* {{Cite book|last=Levalet|first=Daniel|title=Avranches et la cité des Abrincates (Ier siècle avant J.-C.-VIIe siècle après J.-C.) recherches historiques et archéologiques|date=2011|publisher=Société des antiquaires de Normandie|isbn=978-2-919026-03-6}}
* {{Cite book|last=Nègre|first=Ernest|url=https://books.google.fr/books?id=rsNpi7IVulEC|title=Toponymie générale de la France|date=1990|publisher=Librairie Droz|year=|isbn=978-2-600-02883-7|location=|pages=|language=fr|ref=harv|author-link=Ernest Nègre}}▼
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▲*{{Cite book|last=Falileyev|first=Alexander|title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=CMCS|year=2010|isbn=978-0955718236|location=|pages=}}
▲*{{Cite journal|last=Levalet|first=Daniel|date=1979|title=De la cité des Abrincates au diocèse d'Avranches. 1) L'environnement archéologique|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/annor_0003-4134_1979_num_29_1_5313|journal=Annales de Normandie|volume=29|issue=1|pages=3–22|doi=10.3406/annor.1979.5313|via=}}
▲*{{Cite book|last=Nègre|first=Ernest|url=https://books.google.fr/books?id=rsNpi7IVulEC|title=Toponymie générale de la France|date=1990|publisher=Librairie Droz|year=|isbn=978-2-600-02883-7|location=|pages=|language=fr|ref=harv|author-link=Ernest Nègre}}
 
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