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Gallic tribe

Bronze coin with the abbreviated name of the Arecomici

The **Arecomici** or **Volcae Arecomici** were a [Gallic](/source/Gauls) tribe dwelling between the [Rhône](/source/Rh%C3%B4ne) and the [Hérault](/source/H%C3%A9rault_(river)) rivers, around present-day [Nîmes](/source/N%C3%AEmes), during the [Iron Age](/source/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture) and the [Roman period](/source/Roman_period).

## Name

The meaning of the [ethnonym](/source/Ethnonym) *Arecomici* remains unclear. The [Gaulish](/source/Gaulish_language) prefix *are-* means 'in front of, in the vicinity of', but the translation of the second element, -*comici*, is unknown.[1] The name *[Volcae](/source/Volcae)* stems from [Gaulish](/source/Gaulish_language) *uolcos* ('hawk').[2]

## Geography

Their chief town [Nemausus](/source/Nemausus) was inhabited since the [Bronze Age](/source/Bronze_Age); its original pre-Celtic name was likely forgotten after the takeover of the settlement by the Celtic Volcae.[3]

Another settlement was known as Vindomagus ('white market').[3]

## History

The Arecomici were probably first recognized or defined as a political entity by Rome around 75 BC.[4] According to anthropologist Michael Dietler, the Roman colonization of the region, which led to the organization of Nemausus as a *colonia Latina* in the late 1st century AD, "resulted in the [ethnogenesis](/source/Ethnogenesis) of the Volcae Arecomici out of a formerly fluid coalition of different polities and ethnic groups".[5]

They were indeed part of a political confederation encompassing multiple smaller tribes. By the early first century AD, the Volcae Arecomici were the dominant force of the confederation, ruling over twenty-four subject towns (*oppida ignobilia*) from their capital Nemausus.[6]

## Economy

The Roman conquest was soon followed up by the first emissions of coins in Nemausus. Coins with the legend 'Volcae Arecomici' (AR/VOLC or VOLC/AREC) are dated to 70 BC.[7]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Hoz2005178_1-0)** [de Hoz 2005](#CITEREFde_Hoz2005), p. 178.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelamarre2003327_2-0)** [Delamarre 2003](#CITEREFDelamarre2003), p. 327.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Hoz2005179_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Hoz2005179_3-1) [de Hoz 2005](#CITEREFde_Hoz2005), p. 179.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDietler2015359_4-0)** [Dietler 2015](#CITEREFDietler2015), p. 359.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDietler201590_5-0)** [Dietler 2015](#CITEREFDietler2015), p. 90.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDietler201588–89_6-0)** [Dietler 2015](#CITEREFDietler2015), pp. 88–89.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDietler201591_7-0)** [Dietler 2015](#CITEREFDietler2015), p. 91.

### Bibliography

- [de Hoz, Javier](/source/Javier_de_Hoz) (2005). "Ptolemy and the linguistic history of the Narbonensis". In de Hoz, Javier; Luján, Eugenio R.; Sims-Williams, Patrick (eds.). *New approaches to Celtic place-names in Ptolemy's Geography*. Ediciones Clásicas. pp. 173–188. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-8478825721](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-8478825721).

- [Delamarre, Xavier](/source/Xavier_Delamarre) (2003). *Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental*. Errance. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9782877723695](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9782877723695).

- Dietler, Michael (2015). *Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France*. University of California Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-520-28757-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-28757-0).

## Further reading

- Dupraz, Emmanuel. "Commémorations cultuelles gallo-grecques chez les Volques Arécomiques". In: *Etudes Celtiques*, vol. 44, 2018. pp. 35-72. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.2018.2180](https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.2018.2180); www.persee.fr/doc/ecelt_0373-1928_2018_num_44_1_2180

## External links

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