See also:CARNUTES (Carnuti, Carnutae, Kapvovri'vot in See also:Plutarch)
, a See also:Celtic See also:people of central See also:Gaul, between the Sequana (See also:Seine)' and the Liger (See also:Loire)
.
Their territory corresponded to the dioceses of See also:Chartres, See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans and See also:Blois, that is, the greater See also:part of the See also:modern departments of See also:Eure-et-Loir, Loiret, Loir-et-See also:Cher
.
It was regarded as the See also:political and religious centre of the Gallic nation
.
The See also:chief towns were Cenabum (not Genabum; Orleans) and Autricum (Chartres)
.
According to See also:Livy (v
.
34) the See also:Carnutes were one of the tribes which accompanied Bellovesus in his invasion of See also:Italy during the reign of Tarquinius Prisms
.
In the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Caesar they were dependents of the Remi, who on one occasion interceded for them
.
In 52 they joined in the See also:rebellion of Vercingetorix
.
As a See also:punishment for the treacherous See also:murder of some See also:Roman merchants and one of Caesar's See also:commissariat See also:officers at Cenabum, the See also:town was burnt and the inhabitants put to the See also:sword or sold as slaves
.
During the See also:war they sent 12,000 men to relieve See also:Alesia, but shared in the defeat of the Gallic See also:army
.
Having attacked the See also:Bituriges Cubi, who appealed to Caesar for assistance, they were forced to submit
.
Under See also:Augustus, the Carnutes, as one of the peoples of Lugdunensis, were raised to the See also:rank of ci ltas socia or foederata, retaining their own institutions, and only See also:bound to render military service to the See also:emperor
.
Up to the 3rd See also:century Autricum (later Carnutes, whence Chartres) was the See also:capital, but in 275 See also:Aurelian changed Cenabum from a vicus into a civitas and named it Aurelianum or Aurelianensis urbs (whence Orleans)
.
See Caesar, See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell
.
See also:Gall. v
.
25, 29, vii
.
8, 11, 75, viii
.
5, 31; See also:Strabo
iv. pp
.
191-193; R
.
Boutrays, Urbis gentisque Carnutum hisloria (1624); A
.
Desjardins, Geographie historique de la Gaule, ii
.
(1876-1893) See also:article and bibliography in La Grande Encyclopedie; T
.
R
.
See also:Holmes, Caesar's See also:Conquest of Gaul (1899), p
.
402, on Cenabum
.
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