Gabali
The Gabali (Gaulish: *Gabli) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the later Gévaudan region during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Name
[edit | edit source]They are named as Gabali by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC),[1] as Gabalei͂s (Γαβαλεῖς) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),[2] as Gabales by Pliny (1st c. AD),[3] and as Tábaloi (Τάβαλοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).[4][5]
The ethnonym Gabali is a Latinized form of Gaulish *Gabloi. It derives from the stem gablo- (cf. Olr. gabul, Middle Welsh gafl, OBret. gabl), initially designating the 'forked branch of a tree', then more generally a 'fork'. The name is related to the Gallo-Latin *gabalottus ('spear'), which may have given the word javelot in French.[6][7]
The city of Javols, attested ca. 400 AD as civitas Gabalum ('civitas of the Gabali', Javols in 1109), and the Gévaudan region, attested in the 1st c. AD as Gabalicus pagus (Gavuldanum in the 10th c., Gavalda in the 13th c.), are named after the Gallic tribe.[8]
Geography
[edit | edit source]The Gabali dwelled in the Gévaudan region, on the north-western foot of the Cevennes. Their territory was located south of the Arveni, and north of the Ruteni.[9]
Their chief town was Anderitum (present-day Javols).[9]
History
[edit | edit source]They were subject, and allied to the Averni. They are mentioned in Book VII of Caesar's Commentaries. During Caesar's conquest of Gaul they were raiding the country of the Provincial Ruteni, and they were among the tribes that sent relief troops to the Gallic army trying to break the siege in Alesia.[citation needed]
Economy
[edit | edit source]The Gabali were cattle breeders. Many of them were also miners, as their region was rich in silver mines.[9]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, 7:7:2, 75:2.
- ^ Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:2:2.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:109.
- ^ Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:7:11.
- ^ Falileyev 2010, s.v. Gabali.
- ^ Delamarre 2003, pp. 172–173.
- ^ Matasović 2009, pp. 147–148.
- ^ Nègre 1990, p. 154.
- ^ a b c Lafond 2006.
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