Caletes

The Caleten (Latin Caletes or Calētī ) were a Celtic or Germanic tribe of the Belgae, whose settlement area lay in the territory of the present Normandy between the coast and the River Seine.

The Caleten are first mentioned in writing by the Roman general and author Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico, his account of his wars in Gaul. They were involved in BC with the tribes of Bellovaci, Ambiani, Aulercer, Veliocasser and Atrebates, under the leadership of Correus the resistance against the conquest of the north of present-day France by Caesar in the year 51. Caeser it expects to Belgen, strains of primarily Celtic, but also partly of Germanic origin that were different from Gauls and Aquitanern in language and culture. The Caleten to have come across the Rhine in their settlement area, thus more likely to be of Germanic origin.

The settlement area of Caleten after their subjugation by Rome was a part of the designated Gaul region of the Roman Empire, with the provincial reform of the Roman Emperor Augustus it became part of the province of Gallia Belgica.

The most important city of Caleten was the port city Caracotinum, today Harfleur. Your name is in the to find the city of Calais today ..