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BITURIGES , a See also:

Celtic See also:people, according to See also:Livy (v. 34) the most powerful in See also:Gaul in the See also:time of Tarquinius See also:Priscus. At some See also:period unknown they split up into two branches—Bituriges Cubi and Bituriges Vivisci. The name is supposed to mean either " rulers of the See also:world " or " perpetual See also:kings:" The Bituriges Cubi, called simply Bituriges by See also:Caesar, in whose time they acknowledged the supremacy of the See also:Aedui, inhabited the See also:modern See also:diocese of See also:Bourges, including the depart-' ments of See also:Cher and See also:Indre, and partly that of See also:Allier. Their See also:chief towns were Avaricum (Bourges), Argentomagus (Argenton-sur-See also:Creuse), Neriomagus (Neris-See also:les-Balms), Noviodunum (perhaps Villate). At the time of the See also:rebellion of Vercingetorix (sa Inc.), Avaricum, after a desperate resistance, was taken by See also:assault, and the inhabitants put to the See also:sword. In the following See also:year, the Bituriges submitted to Caesar, and under See also:Augustus they were incorporated (in 28 B.C.) in Aquitania. See also:Pliny (Nat. Hist. iv. 109) speaks of them as liberi, which points to their enjoying a certain amount of See also:independence under See also:Roman See also:government. The See also:district contained a number of See also:iron See also:works, and Caesar says they were skilled in See also:driving galleries and See also:mining operations, The Bituriges Vivisci occupied the See also:strip of See also:land between the See also:sea and the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Garonne, comprising the greater See also:part of the modern See also:department of See also:Gironde. Their See also:capital was Burdigala (See also:Bordeaux), even then a See also:place of considerable importance and a See also:wine-growing centre.

Like the Cubi, they also are called liberi by Pliny. See A. Desjardilis, Geographie historique de la Gaule romaine; (1876-1893) ; A. Longnon, Geographie de la Gaule au VP siecle (1878); A. Holder, Alt-celtiseher Sprachschatz; T. R.See also:

Holmes, Caesar's See also:Conquest of Gaul (1899).

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