Meldi
Sign in to saveThe Meldi were a Gallic tribe living in the region of modern Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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The Meldi were a Gallic tribe living in the region of modern Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
== Name == They are attested as Meldi by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC)., as Méldoi (Μέλδοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Meldi liberi by Pliny (1st c. AD), Méldai (Μέλδαι; var. Μέλγαι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Ciuitas Melduorum (var. meldorum) in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).
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