Seduni

The Seduner (Latin Seduni ) were a Celtic tribe in what is now the Swiss canton of Valais.

Settlement area

The name is Sedun Gallic origin and means sedentary. Archaeological evidence of the Seduner in the 1st century BC Their settlement was focused in the central Valais; Findings, however, are in the East is to Pfynwald and in the west to the valley of the Morge - Sedun (Latin Sedunum ), today's morals, is regarded as her capital. From the neighboring tribes Seduner are said to have discriminated by bangles, which expire in snake heads.

History

Historically appear the Seduner in the Gallic War, when the Roman army commander Servius Galba in 57 BC, tried with the Legio XII Fulminata, the Rhône Valley, and thus the direct link between Italy and northern Gaul ( Great St. Bernard Pass ) to bring under Roman control. Caesar describes in De bello Gallico, among others, the conquest of the Valais: Along with the neighboring Veragrern and Nantuaten the Roman army was driven back at the Battle of Octodurus near Martigny now.

By 15 BC, Drusus and his brother Tiberius ( Tiberius Claudius Nero 14-37 AD), both stepsons of Augustus, incorporated in the territory of the Alpine campaign Seduner in the Roman Empire. Together with the Nantuaten, Veragrern and Uberern they formed after the covenant quattuor civitates vallis Poeninae the territory of the now Roman administrative unit Raeti Vindelici Vallis Poeninae.

To 8-6 BC were made first of loyalty of the Valais tribes ( pagi ) and the Seduner Nantuaten against Rome. On the Tropaeum Alpium in La Turbie in honor of Augustus, among other things Uberi, Nantuates, Seduni and Veragri are listed. The area of ​​the Vallis Poenina is then incorporated into the Roman province of Raetia et Vindelicum, and at the latest after the administrative reform of Diocletian around 300 AD with the province Alpes Graiae summarized as Graiae Alpes et Poeninae. Build 23 AD, the four tribal communities ( civitates ) of the Vallis Poenina stone monuments in honor of Drusus the Younger, son of Tiberius, and in honor of Caligula. In the years 41 to 47 Emperor Claudius rises the Valais to own province Vallis Poenina; residents to benefit from the Latin civil rights as federates.

With the withdrawal of Roman troops in the year 401 or 435 according to the settlement area of ​​Seduner was incorporated into the kingdom of Burgundy, and Sion was founded in 580 as bishop 's seat.