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Pictones
Tribe inhabiting a region along the Bay of Biscay
The Pictones or Pictavi (Ancient Greek: Πίκτονες) were a Gallic people dwelling south of the lower Loire river, in the region later called Poitou, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Their chief town was Lemonum, the ancestor of modern Poitiers, and Ptolemy records a second town, Ratiatum (Rezé), on the Loire.
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The Pictones or Pictavi (Ancient Greek: Πίκτονες) were a Gallic people dwelling south of the lower Loire river, in the region later called Poitou, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Their chief town was Lemonum, the ancestor of modern Poitiers, and Ptolemy records a second town, Ratiatum (Rezé), on the Loire. During the Gallic Wars the Pictones sided with Caesar, supplying ships for his campaign against the Veneti in 56 BC, and their leader Duratios received Roman citizenship. Their territory became the civitas of the Pictones, which held the rank of capital of Aquitania in the 2nd century AD. The later form of their name, Pictavi, survives in those of Poitiers and Poitou.
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