Triboci

The Triboci were a tribe that around the year 70 BC in the area on the Rhine at Strasbourg and Haguenau was resident at the latest. From when exactly this tribe settled down there, is not safe to occupy. The Triboci operated in their settlement area livestock and arable economy as well as iron smelting and quarrying.

The first mention in Caesar and Tacitus

The Triboci are first mentioned by the Roman general Gaius Iulius Caesar and author in De Bello Gallico, his account of his wars in Gaul. Around the year 70 BC, various tribes were led by the Germanic prince Ariovistus in search of a new settlement area penetrated into the territory of the Gauls. The under the protectorate of the Roman Empire Gauls asked, as Caesar, Rome for help. Caesar calls the Triboci then among the seven tribes, which he defeated in a battle at the Rhine in 58 BC. The Roman historian and senator Tacitus attacks at the end of the 1st century AD on the back he mentioned high informant and Caesar mentions in his Germania Triboci also.

Teutons or Celts

Caesar refers to the seven tribes of the Battle of the Rhine as the Germans. In addition to the Tribokern Caesar mentions in his war report nor the Haruder, Marcomanni, Vangiones, Nemeter, Sedusier and Suevi. Today it is believed that certain of the enumerated tribes such as the Celts were originally Nemeter who had settled before the battle in the Germanic settlement area and then connected the leadership of the Germanic prince Ariovistus. About the ethnicity of tribes in the right bank of the Rhine in the run-up to the 1st century BC due to the so-called " Helvetian wasteland " little known. The settlement in the territory of the Reich was probably only take place during the reign of Augustus. Notes on Caesar himself among the " geographical digressions ", which were probably the earliest inserted in the Augustan period in the work. More likely, in addition to an indirect mention of the geographer Strabo 's own expressions of Caesar, after the defeat of Ariovistus all Suevi had fled across the Rhine.

Participation in the revolt of Treverians

The Triboci sent fighters to Julius Classicus, leader of the Treverians and Roman usurper in the late 1st century, who wanted to impose the establishment of a Gallic empire. After a few months of this revolt against Rome was crushed by Vespasian's generals Petilius Cerialis.

History in the 4th century

The settlement area of Triboci was around 350 AD devastated by the invasion of the Alemanni and then occupied 401 of ( other ) Germanic tribes.