Belendi
Ancient people of Aquitania
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The Belendi were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny, where they stand just before the 'Pyrenean forest' (saltus Pyrenaeus).
Name
They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, between the Onobrisates and the 'Pyrenean forest' (saltus Pyrenaeus).[1][2] The name was long connected with the place-name Belin, on the Leyre southeast of the basin of Arcachon, although this has been rejected in recent scholarship.[3][4]
Geography
Pliny places the Belendi at the close of his first Aquitanian stretch, by the saltus Pyrenaeus.[2] On the place-name Belin they were long set in the Landes, but Paul-Marie Duval and Jean-Pierre Bost hold rather that they belonged near the Pyrenees, the likeness to Belin being a matter of chance.[3][4] Reasoning from the order of the list, Duval sought them among the peoples of the high Pyrenees.[5]