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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 178 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOLCAE , a See also:

Celtic See also:people in the See also:province of Gallia Narbonensis, who occupied the See also:district between the Garumna (See also:Garonne), Cerbenna See also:mons (See also:Cevennes), and the Rhodanus (or even farther to the See also:east in earlier times), corresponding roughly to the old province of See also:Languedoc. They were divided into two tribes, the Arecomici on the east and the Tectosages (whose territory included that of the Tolosates) on the See also:west, separated by the See also:river Arauris (See also:HerauLt) or a See also:line between the Arauris and Orbis (Orbe). The Volcae were See also:free and See also:independent, had their own See also:laws, and possessed the See also:jus Latii. The See also:chief See also:town of the Tectosages was Tolosa (See also:Toulouse); of the Arecomici, Nemausus (See also:Nimes); the See also:capital of the province and See also:residence of the See also:governor was Narbo See also:Martius (See also:Narbonne). It was said that there was an See also:early See also:settlement of Volcae Tectosages near the Hercynia See also:Silva in See also:Germany; Tectosages was also the name of one of the three See also:great communities of Gauls who invaded and settled in See also:Asia See also:Minor in the See also:country called after them See also:Galatia. See A. Holder, Altceltischer Sprachschatz, i. ii. (1896, 1904), s.vv. " Arecomici " and " Tectosagi "; T. R. See also:Holmes, See also:Caesar's See also:Conquest of See also:Gaul (1899) p. 513; A.

Desjardins, Geographie de la Gaule romaine, i. (1876).

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