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( Treveri)
The Treveri or Treviri were a tribe of Gauls who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle, within the southern fringes of the Arduenna Silva (Ardennes Forest), a part of the vast Silva Carbonaria, in what are now Luxembourg, southeastern Belgium and western Germany. The spelling variants Treveri and Treviri are found in Latin texts from the time of Caesar's De Bello Gallico to Tacitus's Annales. Latin texts are in general agreement that the first vowel, however, is -e-. For their part, Greek texts mostly give ????????? (transliterated Treoueroi). Variants such as Treberi and ???ß???? (Triberoi) appear in Pliny and Ptolemy, respectively. A few highly deviant variant forms are also attested ??????? (Trieroi) in Ptolemy and ?????s???? (Treousgroi) in Strabo. The name has been uncertainly interpreted as referring to a "flowing river" or to "crossing the river".[1] The first syllable is shown long and stressed (Treveri) in Latin dictionaries.[2] In the time of Julius Caesar their territory extended as far as the Rhine north of the Triboci (III11, IV3, IV10); across the Rhine from them lived the Ubii. Caesar mentions that the Segni and the Condrusi lived between the Treveri and the Eburones, and that the Condrusii and Eburones were clients of the Treveri (IV6, VI32).[3] Caesar bridged the Rhine in the territory of the Treveri.[3][4] They were bordered on the north, west and south by Belgic tribes friendly to Rome the Tungri, the Remi and the Mediomatrici, respectively. Later the Germanic Vangiones and Nemetes would settle to the east of the Treveri along the Rhine, and Treveran territory thereafter was probably similar to that which afterwards became the diocese of Trier. The Rhine valley was removed from Treveran authority with the formation of the province of Germania Superior in the 80s CE.[5] The valley of the Ahr would have marked their northern boundary.
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