Tigurini

The Tigurini (Latin Tigurini, ancient Greek Τιγουρίνοι ) were one of the four districts ( pagi ) of the Celtic Helvetii tribe.

History

The settlement area of Tigurini was in the area around Aventicum in western Switzerland. Tigurini comes from the Gallic language and means " men " (Irish mooch ) or « Lord » ( welsh Teyrn ).

Historically occurred in the appearance Tigurini and Tougener with the Cimbri, with which they ravaged the southern Gaul under the Kimbernkriege. 107 BC they arrived in the territory of nations in today's southern France, beating under the leadership of Divico in the field of Nitiobriger the Roman army of the consul Lucius Cassius Longinus and Lucius Calpurnius Piso whose legacies Caesoninus. Lucius Cassius was killed along with a large part of the troops of the Cimbri, they took hostages and forced the prisoners under the yoke, like Caesar handed. In the obtained Epitome of Livy's historical work, this episode is not mentioned. The exact site of the battle is not known, but it should be located on the Garonne at Agen, so commonly is from the Battle of Agen 's speech. In the Orange Tigurini beat again along with the other tribes 105 BC another Roman army.

To 102/101 BC, the Tigurini followed the Cimbri on their train through the Alps, but did not penetrate into Italy, but remained with the Brenner Pass. After the Cimbri 101 BC in the Po Valley in Vercellae by the troops of Gaius Marius and Quintus Catulus Lutatius were defeated, returned the Tigurini back to their homeland. The Tigurini could escape the destruction and moved with their booty back to the north. The Tigurini or the Helvetii thereafter remained in the collective memory of Rome as a strong and threatening Celtic tribe received.

In 58 BC, she participated in the train of the Helvetii in southern Gaul, were defeated by the troops of Caesar before the Battle of Bibracte on the Saône and forced to return to the territory of present-day Switzerland.

Tiguri (ni ) & Turicum for Zurich

In the 16th century, historians and cartographers began the area around Zurich " pagus Tigurinus " as the home of Divico to heroize, derived from the name similarity of the Roman Vicus Turicum ( Zurich ) with Tigurini or Tiguri. A Roman inscription discovered in recent times from the late 2nd century AD in Avenches ( Aventicum ) has cleared up this misunderstanding.