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Helvetii

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: G.D. Woolf

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 16, 2022 02:13 PM — 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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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177534

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
46.9580190681, 6.91859315322

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Helvetii (330 BC - AD 300)
- Helvitii (330 BC - AD 300)

Helvetii makes connections with:

Less than certain: Helvetii ally of (H)Aedui (330 BC - 30 BC)

Helvetii receives connections from:

Tigurini connection Helvetii (unspecified date range)

Place type:
map label location, people, tribe (historical cultural group)

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 18 D3 Helvetii

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: SWI

Alternate representations:
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Suggested citation:
G.D. Woolf, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Helvetii: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177534> [accessed: 13 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177534 |title=Places: 177534 (Helvetii) |author=Woolf, G. |accessdate=November 13, 2024 1:49 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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