The Catuslugi were probably a pagus of the larger Ambiani during the Roman period, since they were too small to form their own civitas. [10]

The pagus and vicus (a small nucleated settlement or village) are characteristic of pre-urban organization of the countryside. In Latin epigraphy of the Republican era , pagus refers to local territorial divisions of the peoples of the central Apennines and is assumed to express local social structures as they existed variously.

Centred around Shropshire at Caer Meguaidd, and covering much of the modern Welsh border as far north as the River Dee (Deva), the later Welsh principality of Powys derived its name from the descriptive Latin pagenses, meaning '(land of the) country dwellers' or 'people of the pagi', with a pagus (singular) being the Roman equivalent of a ...

Caesar uses the Latin term pagus (pl. pagi) to refer to some primary social formation, although it is unclear whether it is the extended kin-group (a coalition of extended families, like a clan) or some larger political entity.

Contemporary accounts translate it literally into Latin, showing it as pagus trans silvam, meaning 'country beyond the forest (such as charters held by Redon Abbey). The pagus started out as part of Domnonia, and included a smaller region with the name of Porhoët.

The Celtic pagus, at the time of the Roman conquest, had at once a greater extent than the Italian, and a greater power from the fact that these cantons were not in the same way changed from their primitive condition and absorbed into a regularly constituted state, but still retained their own clan government with generally a somewhat loose ...

Set up by the new wave of British settlers during the mid-fifth century, Poher seemed to change hands a great deal from the sixth century onwards, between Britons and Franks after Blois had fallen in 491 and the Frankish border closed up to the Vannetais (Brittany) area.

Dec 5, 2012 · Powys's original boundaries extended from the Cambrian Mountains in the west to well inside the modern West Midlands region of England in the east, including the fertile river valleys of the Severn and Trent, and it is thought that this is how Powys got its name, deriving from the Latin word pagus, meaning "fertile country side", hence the ...

The Cornovīī (Common Brittonic: *Cornowī) were a Celtic people of the Iron Age and Roman Britain, who lived principally in the modern English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, north Staffordshire, north Herefordshire and eastern parts of the …

The Durotriges, were an Iron Age tribe in the British Isles prior to the Roman invasion of Britain. Their territory was in what modern Dorset, south Wiltshire, south Somerset and Devon east of the River Axe. “Toward the west and south of these [the Dobuni and the Belgae] are the Durotriges whose town is Dunium 18*00 52°40.”