The Tricores were a Gallic tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean Sea, between the

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and

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(modern

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), during the

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Name

The Tricores are solely attested by Pliny as ''Tricorium'' in the 1st century AD. Pliny. ''Naturalis Historia'', 3:34. They must be distinguished from the Tricorii of the Drac river valley. The Gaulish name ''Tricores'' probably derives from the prefix ''tri''- ('three') attached to '' corio''- ('army')., s.v. ''Tricores''.

Geography

Pliny describes the territory of the Tricores as located between the

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to the south and the

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to the north, and between the

to the west and

to the east. The region of

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and Vitrolles, to the south and southeast of the Étang de Berre, is a potential candidate. According to history Guy Barruol, they were part of the Salluvian confederation.

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