Tarbelli

The Tarbelli were an ancient pre-Roman people in the southwestern Aquitaine (later the Roman province Novempopulana ), that belonged to the tribes of Gaul. They lived in the coastal region of the Gulf of Biscay on both sides of Aturrus (now Adour ) to the Pyrenees. According to Ptolemy their settlement area lay to the south of that of the Bituriges Vibisci. The elder Pliny calls them Tarbelli Quattuorsignani, which means as much as Tarbelli of four banners, but the epithet Quattuorsignani not explained. The Tarbelli exploited the gold deposits of their territory and also came because of their cold and hot mineral springs prospering. But most of all they lived on agriculture and pastoralism.

The Gaius Iulius Caesar during his Gallic War 56 BC with the conquest of Aquitaine commissioned Publius Licinius Crassus brought the Tarbelli for the recognition of Roman supremacy. As a result, they belonged with other strains for civitas in Gallia Aquitania Aquensium. Your most important place was the Aturrus -carrying Aquae Tarbellicae (today's Dax ). In late antiquity, the territory of the Tarbelli belonged to the established by the Emperor Diocletian province Novempopulana.