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The Coelerni were an ancient Celtic tribe of Gallaecia in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula), part of Calaician or Gallaeci people, living in what was to become the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior, convent of ''Bracara Augusta'' (the modern Portuguese city of Braga), in what is now the southern part of the province of Ourense (in Galicia). Some sources, like Alarcão,〔See Jorge de Alarcão, ''Portugal Romano'', Lisboa, 1973 (see page 18 of the 1976 edition) - also published in English as Jorge de Alarcão, ''Roman Portugal'', Warminster, 1988 (in 4 volumes).〕 also state that the Coelerni lived in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, in the mountains between the rivers Tua and Sabor - this seems to be incorrect and predates the finding of the Tessera Hospitalis of Castromao. However there was a lusitanian people of the Colarni (inscription of Alcantara) living near the Douro river in Lamego, that could have some link with the galician Coelerni. ==Classical Sources== The Coelerni are known from few literary sources, such as Pliny and Ptolemy, and because they appear as one of the ten civitates of the convent Bracarensis that are cited in the Inscription of the Peoples of Chaves (the Roman Aquae Flaviae), a column in the Roman bridge in Chaves where those people rend homage to Emperor Vespasian.〔This inscription, made in 79, commemorates the road open by the Legionnaires of the ''VII Gemina Felix'' Legion, because that road had been opened with the contributions of ten Civitas, named alphabetically: Aquiflaviensis, Aobrigensis, Bibali, Coelerni, Equaesi, Interamnici, Limici, Naebisoci, Quarquerni and Tamagani.〕 Pliny, knew the Iberian Peninsula, as he had worked there as an administrator during the reign of Vespasian. The results of a census he passes on to us informs about the following: «The jurisdiction of Lucus contains 15 peoples both unimportant and bearing outlandish names, excepting the Celtici and the Lemavi, but with a free population amounting to about 166,000. In a similar way the 24 states () of Braga contain 285,000 persons, of whom besides the Bracari themselves may be mentioned, without wearying the reader, the Biballi, Coelerni, Callaeci, Equaesi, Limici and Querquerni (Naturalis Historia, III, 3, 28).〔() Iunguntur iis Astrum XXII populi divisi in Augustanos et Trasmontanos, Asturica urbe magnifica. in iis sunt Gigurri, Paesici, Lancienses, Zoelae. numerus omnis multitudinis ad CCXL liberorum capitum. Lucensis conventus populorum est sedecim, praeter Celticos et Lemavos ignobilium ac barbarae appellationis, sed liberorum capitum ferme CLXVI. Simili modo Bracarum XXIIII civitates CCLXXXV capitum, ex quibus praeter ipsos Bracaros Bibali, Coelerni, Callaeci, Equasei, Limici, Querquerni citra fastidium nominentur.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coelerni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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