The Catenates or Cattenates were a Gauls tribe dwelling between the Isar and Inn rivers during the Iron Age.
Name
They are mentioned as
Catenates (
var. catte-) by Pliny (1st c. AD).
[Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20.][, s.v. Cat(t)enates.]
The ethnic name probably contains the Gaulish stem catu-, meaning 'battle'.
Geography
The Catenates lived between the
Isar and Inn rivers. Their territory was located south of the
Rucinates, east of the
Vindelici, north of the
Baiuvarii.
[, Map 12: Mogontiacum-Reginum-Lauriacum.] They were part of the
Vindelici.
History
They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the
Tropaeum Alpium.
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