Turones
As Turones one called an old Gaulish ( Celtic ) people in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis in the Loire Valley. The Romans called this people Turones or Turonii and its capital Caesarodunum (now Tours).
Also led a Germanic tribe - possibly of Celtic origin, which near the Marvingischen tribe, south and southeast of the chat later (Hesse) had its residences and possibly arose from a mixture of Germans still living there with Celtic, the name Turones or Touroner. These have been used as Turoni (Greek Τούρωνοι Touronoi ) together with other Germanic tribes in the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century AD ) mentions "CAP XI Germaniae magnae situs ( Europae tabula quarta ). ".
Hypotheses - Celtic or Germanic?
Is speculative whether the name similarity between the two - as Turones designated groups - was purely coincidental, or whether was given due to vorgermanischen migration of Celtic tribes, a connection between the two groups. A clear indication for a Celtic settlement in südthüringisch - Franconia between the Thuringian Forest and Main, for example, the remains of the only Celtic oppidum in Thuringia from the 2nd and 1st century BC, the so-called stone castle in Römhild in the district of Hildburghausen.
Through a mix of Germans and Celts is speculated, but both the Germans and Celts make each other no single nation is, but rather had more of a cultural and linguistic affinity which has, however, increasingly dissolved into different language and cultural areas. Thus, the origin of the name could be Thuringian (as Touroner - Turoni - Thoringi etc.) as well celtic, like that of their namesakes on the Loire. Finally, in many parts of Germany still plenty of Celtic corridor and water name. Compare also the name similarity of the French region of Touraine with the Free State of Thuringia.
Also, it could be a name transfer of the Roman and Greek historians. The exact etymology of the word Thuringian has so far been poorly understood.
So far it remains unclear is the link with the Hermunduren which had been partially relocated by the Roman Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus commander in the abandoned of the Marcomanni area on the upper Main. Precisely that area where the Turones should have also settled. It is both possible that the Turones constitute an offshoot of the Hermunduren or were identical with those - and that they constitute a distinct group since the original Hermunduren at the middle and upper Elbe (today's Saxony) owned their actual main settlement area, from 100 BC but also penetrated further to the south and southwest.