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Ordovices
Ordovices. Indigenous British tribe of the Iron Age and Roman periods whose territory covered much of mid-Wales. The Ordovices were the northern neighbours of the Silures and the southern neighbours of the Degeangli. After the Claudian invasion the Ordovices and the Silures were stirred into rebellion by Caratacus. Between ad 47 and 51 the governor P. Ostorius Scapula temporarily subdued the revolting tribes in Wales and elsewhere. His successor Aulus Didius Gallus also struggled against the Welsh tribes. Agricola finally defeated the Ordovices in 77–8. The tribe was incorporated into the province of Britannia and thus became a civitas (tribal administrative district).
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JOHN CANNON. "Ordovices." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Ordovices." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Ordovices.html JOHN CANNON. "Ordovices." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Ordovices.html |
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Ordovices
Ordovices [hammer fighters]. People of pre-Roman and Roman Wales, cited by the ancient geographer Ptolemy (2nd cent. AD), whose territory extended from Herefordshire on the Welsh border to Anglesey. The gloss of their name may link them with the pre-historic stone-axe ‘factory’ at Graig Lwyd in Caernarvonshire. Tacitus (1st cent. AD) describes a Roman campaign against the Ordovices, AD 59, in which the legions were confronted with black-robed women with dishevelled hair like furies, brandishing torches.
Bibliography See Barry Cunliffe , Iron Age Communities in Britain (London, 1974). |
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JAMES MacKILLOP. "Ordovices." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES MacKILLOP. "Ordovices." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Ordovices.html JAMES MacKILLOP. "Ordovices." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Ordovices.html |
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Ordovices
Ordovices Indigenous British tribe of the Iron Age and Roman periods whose territory covered much of mid‐Wales. the Ordovices were the northern neighbours of the Silures and the southern neighbours of the Degeangli. After the Claudian invasion the Ordovices and the Silures were stirred into rebellion by Caratacus.
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JOHN CANNON. "Ordovices." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Ordovices." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-Ordovices.html JOHN CANNON. "Ordovices." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-Ordovices.html |
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