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Helvetii

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: G.D. Woolf

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Aug 19, 2013 12:20 AM — History

The Helvetii were a confederation of Gallic tribes occupying the Swiss plateau and they came into contact with the Roman Republic during the first century BC. Iulius Caesar states that the Helvetti were divided into four pagi.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177534

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
46.5, 6.5

Locations:

Barrington Atlas location (330 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Helvetii (330 BC - AD 300)
Helvitii (330 BC - AD 300)

Helvetii makes connections with:

None

Helvetii receives connections from:

Tigurini connection Helvetii (unspecified date range)

Place type:
people, tribe

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 18 D3 Helvetii

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: SWI

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
G.D. Woolf, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Helvetii: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177534> [accessed: 07 July 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177534 |title=Places: 177534 (Helvetii) |author=Woolf, G. |accessdate=July 7, 2020 3:35 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Helvetii