Brannovices
Sign in to saveThe Brannovices or Aulerci Brannovices (Gaulish: *Brannouīcēs) were a Gallic tribe living in the Saône valley or south of the modern Yonne department before the Roman period. They were part of the Aulerci.
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The Brannovices or Aulerci Brannovices (Gaulish: *Brannouīcēs) were a Gallic tribe living in the Saône valley or south of the modern Yonne department before the Roman period. They were part of the Aulerci.
== Name == They are mentioned as Aulercis Brannovicibus by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC). They may be the same people as the Blannovii mentioned in the same passage by Caesar. According to Andreas Hofeneder, the name Blannovii is probably a corrupted form of Brannovices, inadvertently introduced twice into Caesar's text by later scribes as a lectio duplex (dittography).
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