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    The Osismii, Ossismii, or Ostimii (also Ossismi, Osismi) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the western part of the Armorican Peninsula (modern Brittany)...
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    peoples historically attested in Armorica include the Redones, Curiosolitae, Osismii, Esubii and Namnetes.[citation needed] Caesar reports in Bellum Gallicum...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany :   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes...
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    tribe, the Ambilatres, whose existence and territory remain unsure. The Osismii, who lived in the western part of Brittany. Their territory comprised the...
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  • Prussian, Vilnius 2005–06, p. 47. For a theory that the Aestii are the Osismii of Strabo and the Ostimii of Pytheas also mentioned by Strabo, see Bojtàr...
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    (Massongex) Nervii (*Nerwī) Bagacum (Bavay) Nitiobroges Aginnon (Agen) Osismii (*Ostimī) Vorgium (Carhaix) Parisii Lutetia (Paris) Petrocorii Vesunna...
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    plates xxi, xxiii, coins of the Aulerci Diablintes, Aulerci Cenomani and Osismii. Trésors monétaires, volume XXIV, BNF, 2011. Roes, Anne (1937). "An Iranian...
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    priestesses capable of invoking tempests and adopting animal form among the Osismii, while Strabon (IV, 4, 6) is aware of a convent of women of the Samnitae...
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    Brest, France (category Osismii)
    Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ; Breton pronunciation: [bʀest]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany:   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes   Non-Gallic...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany :   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes...
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    in Aremorica or Armorica Nantuates / Nantuatae Nitiobroges/Nitiobriges Osismii - Western end of Brittany Peninsula, in Aremorica or Armorica Petrocorii –...
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    Book Section Description IV 1 The coastal tribes (the Veneti and the Osismii) 2 A general ethnography of the Gauls 3 The tribes of the Belgae and their...
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    of tribes are mentioned in Roman sources, like the Veneti, Armoricani, Osismii, Namnetes and Coriosolites. Strabo and Poseidonius describe the Armoricani...
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    Huelgoat (category Osismii)
    oppidum, with a linear murus gallicus rampart. It was used as refuge by the Osismii Gauls against the Roman invasion in 57 BC and later acquired a nickname...
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    contributed to its importance. To the west the principal Roman route, via Osismii, stretched from Condate Riedonum to Vorgium (modern Carhaix). In 275, the...
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    Guingamp (category Osismii)
    Guingamp (French: [ɡɛ̃ɡɑ̃] ; Breton: Gwengamp [ˈɡwɛ̃ŋɡãmp]) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population...
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    Brittany. Its capital was the Gallo-Roman city of Vorgium, capital of the Osismii, which became Carhaix after the fall of the Roman Empire. Archaeological...
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    Map of the Gallic people in modern Brittany around 150 AD.   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Redones   Namnetes...
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    Carhaix-Plouguer (category Osismii)
    Vorgium at the time of the Roman Empire. It was the chief town of the Osismii. The Vieilles Charrues Festival (Literally: Old Ploughs Festival) is held...
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    500 BC, a tribe of merchants and sailors in leather barks known as the Osismii peopled the region. To them are to be attributed the gold coinage discovered...
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    and some 53,000 of them sold into slavery. The Veneti, the Unelli, the Osismii, the Curiosolitae, the Sesuvii, the Aulerci and the Rhedones were all brought...
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    of tribes are mentioned in Roman sources, like the Veneti, Armoricani, Osismii, Namnetes and Coriosolites. Strabo and Poseidonius describe the Armoricani...
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    Saint-Pol-de-Léon (category Osismii)
    Saint-Pol-de-Léon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔl də leɔ̃]; Breton: Kastell-Paol) is a commune in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western...
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    they prepared for war by gathering their navy and allying with the nearby Osismii, Lexovii, Namnetes, Ambiliati, Morini, Diablintes, and Menapii. Caesar...
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    Map of the Gallic people of modern Brittany :   Osismii   Veneti   Coriosolites   Riedones   Namnetes...
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    Laniscat (category Osismii)
    Laniscat (French pronunciation: [laniskat]; Breton: Lanniskad) is a former commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France....
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    was built 500 meters from the Roman road linking Vorgium (capital of the Osismii) with Corseul and Aleth (capital of the Coriosolites). A large plateau...
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  • preparing for Julius Caesar's attack (56 BC), they applied for help to the Osismii, Lexovii, Namnetes, and others. (B. G. iii. 9, 11.) Caesar sent Quintus...
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    Landéda (category Osismii)
    Landéda (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃deda]; Breton: Landeda) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The coastal commune...
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