Bigerriones

The Bigerrionen (Latin Bigerriones, rare Bigerri ) were a Celtic tribe of Aquitani and settled on the northern edge of the Pyrenees in the region Aquitaine (later the Roman province Novempopulana ) in south-western France. They gave the landscape of Bigorre her name. The name itself is probably due to the Basque word ibai - Gorri (red river, red river ).

The Bigerri arose with the tribes of Tarbeller, Vasaten, Elusaten, Auscer, among others Ptianier 56 Publius Licinius Crassus, BC, Gaius Julius Caesar a general. In his work Commentarii de bello Gallico Caesar mentions the Bigerri among the tribes of Aquitania.

Your fortified oppidum Bigorra (or Begorra ) was located on a hill above the present Saint- Lézer. At the same place built at the beginning of the 4th century AD, the Roman Gallo a walled fortification, the Castrum Bigorra in the province Novempopulana.