Celtic tribe in southwestern Britain during the Iron Age
Not to be confused with Damnonii.
Dumnonii
Geography
Capital
Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter)
Location
Cornwall Devon West Somerset
Rulers
Kings of Dumnonia
The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period. They were bordered to the east by the Durotriges tribe.
The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and...
region of Domnonée (Breton: Domnonea). The kingdom is named after the Dumnonii, a British Celtic tribe living in the south-west at the time of the Roman...
Iron Age, Roman and the Sub-Roman periods, the county was the home of the Dumnonii Celtic Britons. The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain resulted in the partial...
area during the Iron Age. Atrebates Belgae Cantiaci Catuvellauni Dobunni Dumnonii, and sub-tribe Cornovii Durotriges Regnenses Trinovantes Iceni Carvetii...
Romans also referred to Exeter as Isca Dumnoniorum, "Watertown of the Dumnonii", and Caerleon as Isca Augusta. A small fort was also maintained at Topsham;...
evidence shows that the region was split between the Durotriges, Dobunni and Dumnonii. The Iron Age tribe in Dorset were the Durotriges, "water dwellers", whose...
Ptolemy's Geographike Hyphegesis mentions four towns controlled by the Dumnonii, three of which may have been in Cornwall. However, after 410 AD, Cornwall...
Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) to subdue the hostile Durotriges and Dumnonii tribes, and captured twenty oppida (towns, or more probably hill forts...
attributed to the Dumnonii by Claudius Ptolemy in his 2nd-century Geography and it served as the tribal capital (civitas) of the Dumnonii. It was also listed...
Timeline History of Cornwall Cornish devolution Medieval kingdom Dumnonia Dumnonii Cornovii Rulers (or titles) Legendary rulers King of Cornwall Duke of Cornwall...
was thereby enhanced"). Their territory was bordered to the west by the Dumnonii; and to the east by the Belgae. The tribe's name is known from Ptolemy's...
tribes, kingdoms, cultures and identities throughout Great Britain; the Dumnonii and Cornovii were the Celtic tribes who inhabited what was to become Cornwall...
account is contemporary. The tribe's name is nearly identical to that of the Dumnonii, a fellow British tribe who lived in Cornwall and Devon. The name is also...
one mention in Ptolemy's Geography. The Cornovii (Cornwall), part of the Dumnonii tribe in South West Britain. The existence of this sub-tribe, clan, or...
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