Cavares

The Cavares were a Gallic tribe, possibly an alliance of tribes in the lower Rhone valley between the confluence of the Durance and that of the Isere. As fortresses of Cavares Avennio, Arausio and Cabellio apply. Today the Segallauni that Tricastani that Salluvier that Albici and Vocontier be regarded as neighboring tribes. Even in early times the Cavares to have been Romanized.

The word Cauares likely stems from the Gallic word meaning " the heroes; the winners "; it is comparable to the old Irish Caur ( " Hero, victorious warrior " ) and the Welsh Cawr " giant; Hero ".

The statue of Tarasque from Noves, exhibited in the Musée Calvet in Avignon, is attributed to the Cavares.

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• Strabo, Geography 4 p. 185-186.
• Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 2, 75
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 3, 36
• Claudius Ptolemy, Geographike Hyphegesis 2, 10, 8