02-10-2012, 03:54 PM
I'm just pondering where the Cohort would have recruited. The area associated specifically with the Aquitani tribe seems to be pretty small;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitani
I'm wondering whether their recruitment area would have included all of the tribes marked in red as "pre-indo-european" on the above page, that would include pretty much all of what we think of now as the Basque Country, an affiliation that seems to run pretty deep to this day. Alternatively would the recruitment have been restricted to the Roman Province of Gallia Aquitania which is a more plausible recruitment area in terms of size, but far more tribally mixed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallia_Aquitania
The answer may lie in whether there are other contemporary cohorts recruited amongst the Cantabri and Vacones. I haven't found any yet, does anyone know of any?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitani
I'm wondering whether their recruitment area would have included all of the tribes marked in red as "pre-indo-european" on the above page, that would include pretty much all of what we think of now as the Basque Country, an affiliation that seems to run pretty deep to this day. Alternatively would the recruitment have been restricted to the Roman Province of Gallia Aquitania which is a more plausible recruitment area in terms of size, but far more tribally mixed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallia_Aquitania
The answer may lie in whether there are other contemporary cohorts recruited amongst the Cantabri and Vacones. I haven't found any yet, does anyone know of any?
