Dobunni

The Dobunni were a Celtic tribe in what is now England. They settled in the area in the north of Somerset, Avon and Gloucestershire. Their settlements were created as Hill forts. Its main town, was the Roman Corinium Dobunnorum (now Cirencester ), the second largest city in Roman Britain, and later the capital of the province of Britannia probably fine. The geographer Claudius Ptolemy mentions Corinium ( called by him Corinion ) explicitly as the capital of Dobunni.

The Dobunni impressed even before the arrival of the Roman coins. These coins suggest that their empire might have consisted of a northern and southern part temporarily, since different coins have virtually the same time of origin. Of the coins, the names of some rulers are known.

The Dobunni submitted to the Romans apparently without a struggle, as the Roman historian Cassius Dio reported AD to conquest of Britain in 43, in his description of the campaign of Emperor Claudius. Dio Cassius speaks in this regard, while the Bodunni, but historians agree that the so Dobunni are meant. Then you were in the province of Britannia a Civitas.

The previously known kings ( some names have been preserved on inscriptions and coins only in abbreviated form, which is indicated here by the square brackets):

• Anted [ ... ]
• Bodvoc
• Catti [ ... ]
• Comux [ ... ]
• Corio
• EISU [ ... ]
• Inam [ ... ]

In Roman times Corinium Dobunnorum was still the capital of the civitas. Other important places were Magni, Ariconium, Salinae and Durocornovium. The Roman colony of Glevum was practically in the field of Civitas, but was administratively separated.