The Cornovii were a people of ancient

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, known only from a single mention of them by the

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Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

c. 150. From his description, their territory is reliably known to have been at the northern tip of

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, in

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. Ptolemy does not provide them with a town or principal place.

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* {{Scotland during the Roman Empire Historical Celtic peoples Picts Caithness Tribes mentioned by Ptolemy

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