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The
Tungri were a tribe of
Gaul and
Germania. In a casual aside in
Germania Tacitus remarks that
Germani was the original tribal name of the
Tungri with whom the Gauls were in contact; among the Gauls the term
Germani came to be widely applied. The Tungri were among the first to cross the
Rhine into Roman territory and settle among the Gauls, but
Julius Caesar, the first to mention "Germani this side of the Rhine", doesn't mention them in his
Gallic Wars.
Pliny the Elder is the first writer to mention the Tungri, among the tribes in northeastern
Gaul. At the time of
Ptolemy's
Geography they occupied the lands of the northern
Arduenna Silva (Forest of
Ardennes), along the lower valley of the
Mosa (
Meuse River). They were bordered to the north and east by Germanic tribes, but were bolstered by the
Belgic Nervii on the west and by the
Remi and
Treveri to the south. Their tribal capital lay at
Atuatuca, modern
Tongeren in the
Limburg province of
Belgium. The Tungri may have absorbed survivors of the shattered
Eburones and other disbanded rebellious Gauls formerly in the territory of the Tungri.
Tacitus in his
Histories notes two cohorts of Tungri in the
civil war of 69 CE.
The Tungri were mentioned in the
Notitia Dignitatum, an early
fifth-century document, in which was transcribed every
military and governmental post in the late
Roman Empire. The document mentions the Tribune of the First
Cohort of Tungri stationed along
Hadrian's Wall at
Vercovicium (now known as
Housesteads, Northumberland) for the purpose of interdicting northern tribesmen from seeking residence or criminal activity in settled Britannia; this tribune had been mentioned on four military
diplomata dating to the beginning of the second century, as well as on
altars and inscriptions, even on one of the
Vindolanda writing tablets; these wooden tablets are some of the earliest surviving writing in Britain and were found in the Vindolanda fort ruins, immediately south of Hadrian's Wall. The cohort was split in
Hadrianic times to form a Second Cohort of Tungri as well, both cohorts 1000 men strong.
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