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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARNUTES (Carnuti, Carnutae, Kapvovri'vot in See also:Plutarch) , a See also:Celtic See also:people of central See also:Gaul, between the Sequana (See also:Seine)' and the Liger (See also:Loire). Their territory corresponded to the dioceses of See also:Chartres, See also:Orleans and See also:Blois, that is, the greater See also:part of the See also:modern departments of See also:Eure-et-Loir, Loiret, Loir-et-See also:Cher. It was regarded as the See also:political and religious centre of the Gallic nation. The See also:chief towns were Cenabum (not Genabum; Orleans) and Autricum (Chartres). According to See also:Livy (v. 34) the Carnutes were one of the tribes which accompanied Bellovesus in his invasion of See also:Italy during the reign of Tarquinius Prisms. In the See also:time of See also:Caesar they were dependents of the Remi, who on one occasion interceded for them. In 52 they joined in the See also:rebellion of Vercingetorix. As a See also:punishment for the treacherous See also:murder of some See also:Roman merchants and one of Caesar's See also:commissariat See also:officers at Cenabum, the See also:town was burnt and the inhabitants put to the See also:sword or sold as slaves. During the See also:war they sent 12,000 men to relieve See also:Alesia, but shared in the defeat of the Gallic See also:army. Having attacked the See also:Bituriges Cubi, who appealed to Caesar for assistance, they were forced to submit. Under See also:Augustus, the Carnutes, as one of the peoples of Lugdunensis, were raised to the See also:rank of ci ltas socia or foederata, retaining their own institutions, and only See also:bound to render military service to the See also:emperor.

Up to the 3rd See also:

century Autricum (later Carnutes, whence Chartres) was the See also:capital, but in 275 See also:Aurelian changed Cenabum from a vicus into a civitas and named it Aurelianum or Aurelianensis urbs (whence Orleans). See Caesar, See also:Bell. See also:Gall. v. 25, 29, vii. 8, 11, 75, viii. 5, 31; See also:Strabo iv. pp. 191-193; R. Boutrays, Urbis gentisque Carnutum hisloria (1624); A. Desjardins, Geographie historique de la Gaule, ii. (1876-1893) See also:article and bibliography in La Grande Encyclopedie; T. R. See also:Holmes, Caesar's See also:Conquest of Gaul (1899), p.

402, on Cenabum.

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