The Catenates or Cattenates were a Gallic tribe dwelling between the

Isar The Isar () is a river in Austria and in Bavaria, Germany. Its source is in the Karwendel mountain range of the Alps. The Isar river enters Germany near Mittenwald and flows through Krün, Wallgau, Bad Tölz, Munich, and Landshut before reaching ...

and Inn rivers during the

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Name

They are mentioned as ''Catenates'' (var. ''catte-'') by Pliny (1st c. AD). Pliny. ''Naturalis Historia''
3:20
, s.v. ''Cat(t)enates''. The ethnic name probably contains the

Gaulish Gaulish is an extinct Celtic languages, Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, ...

stem ''catu''-, meaning 'battle'. Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has proposed to interpret the name as *''Catu-(g)nat-es'' ('those born in battle').

Geography

The Catenates lived between the

and Inn rivers. Their territory was located south of the Rucinates, east of the

Vindelici The Vindelici (Gaulish: ) were a Gallic people dwelling around present-day Augsburg (Bavaria) during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Name They are mentioned as by Horace (1st c. BC), as (; var. ) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as and (var ...

, north of the Baiovarii., Map 12: Mogontiacum-Reginum-Lauriacum. They were part of the

History

They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.

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