The Pictones were a Gallic tribe dwelling south of the Loire river, in the modern departments of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, during the Iron Age and Roman period.

By the middle of the first century BC, the Pictones were located along western Gaul's Atlantic coast, in the region of Poitou. They were neighboured to the north by the Ambiliati, Namniti and Andes, to the north-east by the Turones, to the east by the Bituriges Cubi, and to the south by the Lemovices and Santones.

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The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages. [1] . Where they lived and details of their culture can be gleaned from early medieval texts and Pictish stones. The name Picti appears in written records as an exonym from the late third century AD.

The Pictones were a Gallic tribe dwelling south of the Loire river, in the modern departments of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, during the Iron Age and Roman period. Map of Gaul with tribes, 1st century BC; the Pictones are circled. Pictonian stater (1st c. BC).

According to the Irish writers the Picts, in their first progress to Ireland from Thrace, settled a colony in Gaul, and the tribes called Pictones and Pictavi, in that country, were descended from them; and they gave name to Pictavia or the city of “Poictiers,” and the province of “Poitou;” and from these Picts were descended the ...

2024年9月27日 · Pictones pl (plural only) A Celtic tribe of Aquitania, whose capital was Limonum. Synonym: Pictavi

The meaning of PICTONES is an ancient people of western Gaul.

The Pictones was a Gallic tribe which inhabited the lands along the Bay of Biscay in western France. In 58 BC, the Pictones felt threatened by the migration of the Helvetii toward the Santones' lands, and the Pictones allied with the Roman general Julius Caesar during his Gallic Wars; Caesar...

Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) was a Roman natural philosopher who was educated in Rome and came into contact with Celts during his military service in Germany and Gaul. The following is an adaptation of Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, trans. John Bostock and H. T. Riley. London: Henry Bohn, 1855. § 3.3.