Vulgientes
Gallic tribe
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The Vulgientes were a Gallic tribe living in modern Vaucluse (southeastern France) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Name
Geography
Their territory was located in the Calavon valley, in present-day Vaucluse.[2]
Their pre-Roman chief-town may have been the oppidum of Perréal, later replaced during the Roman period by Apta Julia (modern Apt), whose inhabitants were known as the Aptenses under the Empire.[3] According to Guy Barruol, the Vulgientes did not constitute a people in their own right but rather formed a pagus corresponding to the inhabitants of this oppidum and its surrounding territory, and should be regarded as a subdivision of the Albici.[3]
In the 1st century AD, Pliny associated the Vulgientes to Apta Julia (Apta Iulia Vulgientium), which, according to Barruol, may reflect an archaic usage rather than a contemporary ethnonym.[3]