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Cavari
The Cavarī or Cavarēs (Gaulish: *Cauaroi, 'the heroes, champions, mighty men') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the western part of modern Vaucluse, around the present-day cities of Avignon, Orange and Cavaillon, during the Roman period. They were at the head of a confederation of tribes that included the Tricastini, Segovellauni and Memini, and whose territory stretched further north along the Rhône Valley up to the Isère river.
They are mentioned as Kaouárōn (Καουάρων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Cavarum by Pliny (1st c. AD), Cavarum and Cavaras by Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD), Kaúaroi (Καύαροι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Cavares on the Tabula Peutingeriana (5th c. AD).
The ethnonym Cavarī is a latinized form of Gaulish *Cauaroi (sing. *Cauaros), meaning "the heroes", or "the mighty men". It derives from the Celtic stem *kawaro-, meaning "hero, champion" (cf. Old Irish cuar "hero, champion, warrior", Middle Welsh cawr, Breton kaour "giant, champion").
The Cavari dwelled on the east bank of the Rhône river, between the Durance (Druentia) and the Tricastin. Their territory was located west of the Vocontii, Memini, Albici and Dexivates, south of the Segovellauni and Tricastini, east of the Volcae Arecomici, north of the Anatilii and Salyes. Some scholars have proposed that the actual boundary between the Salyes and Cavari was the marshy area north of St-Rémy rather than the Durance.
Strabo mentioned that the lands from Cabellio (Cavaillon) up to the confluence of the Isère with the Rhône belonged to the Cavari, Pliny placed Valence in Cavarian territory, and Ptolemy located them immediately south of the Segovellauni, which indicates that they controlled, further north of their homeland, a strip of land along the Rhône up to the confluence of this river with the Isère.
... if you cross the river by ferry into the city of Caballio, the whole country next thereafter belongs to the Cavari, up to the confluence of the Isar with the Rhodanus; this is also approximately where the Cemmenus Mountain joins the Rhodanus; the length of your journey from Druentia up to this place is seven hundred stadia.
— Strabo 1923. Geōgraphiká 4:1:11.
The pre-Roman hill-fort of the Cavari was probably situated on the Colline St-Eutrope, a hill overlooking the modern town of Orange, Vaucluse.
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Cavari
The Cavarī or Cavarēs (Gaulish: *Cauaroi, 'the heroes, champions, mighty men') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the western part of modern Vaucluse, around the present-day cities of Avignon, Orange and Cavaillon, during the Roman period. They were at the head of a confederation of tribes that included the Tricastini, Segovellauni and Memini, and whose territory stretched further north along the Rhône Valley up to the Isère river.
They are mentioned as Kaouárōn (Καουάρων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Cavarum by Pliny (1st c. AD), Cavarum and Cavaras by Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD), Kaúaroi (Καύαροι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Cavares on the Tabula Peutingeriana (5th c. AD).
The ethnonym Cavarī is a latinized form of Gaulish *Cauaroi (sing. *Cauaros), meaning "the heroes", or "the mighty men". It derives from the Celtic stem *kawaro-, meaning "hero, champion" (cf. Old Irish cuar "hero, champion, warrior", Middle Welsh cawr, Breton kaour "giant, champion").
The Cavari dwelled on the east bank of the Rhône river, between the Durance (Druentia) and the Tricastin. Their territory was located west of the Vocontii, Memini, Albici and Dexivates, south of the Segovellauni and Tricastini, east of the Volcae Arecomici, north of the Anatilii and Salyes. Some scholars have proposed that the actual boundary between the Salyes and Cavari was the marshy area north of St-Rémy rather than the Durance.
Strabo mentioned that the lands from Cabellio (Cavaillon) up to the confluence of the Isère with the Rhône belonged to the Cavari, Pliny placed Valence in Cavarian territory, and Ptolemy located them immediately south of the Segovellauni, which indicates that they controlled, further north of their homeland, a strip of land along the Rhône up to the confluence of this river with the Isère.
... if you cross the river by ferry into the city of Caballio, the whole country next thereafter belongs to the Cavari, up to the confluence of the Isar with the Rhodanus; this is also approximately where the Cemmenus Mountain joins the Rhodanus; the length of your journey from Druentia up to this place is seven hundred stadia.
— Strabo 1923. Geōgraphiká 4:1:11.
The pre-Roman hill-fort of the Cavari was probably situated on the Colline St-Eutrope, a hill overlooking the modern town of Orange, Vaucluse.