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Ils ont pour voisins, au sud, les Regnenses, à l'ouest, les Belgae, au nord-ouest les Dobunni, au nord et à l'est, les Catuvellauni. 

Ils ont pour capitale Calleva / Silchester, et pour villes principales : Spinis / Speen, Cunetio / Mildenhall.

Extrait de la carte Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain

* A.L.F RIVET & C. SMITH : Place-Names of Roman Britain, p 259 :

- César, Guerre des Gaules, II, 4  : ATREBATES (of Gaul).

- Ptolémée, II, 3, 12 : Atrebatioi (ATREBATII);

- Itinéraire d'Antonin, 478₃ : CALLEVA ATREBATUM; 

- Ravenna, 106₃₂ : CALEBA ARBATUM.

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DERIVATION. Jackson in Britannia, I (1970), 70, analyses the name as a compound of *treba- 'to inhabit ', from *trebo- 'inhabitation, settlement', with prepositional prefix *ad- 'to' and verbal-adjectival suffix *-tis. He adds that the force of the preposition is unclear; early Irish aittreb, Welsh athref 'inhabitation, dwelling', from *ad-trebo-, suggest that *ad- had no special force in the compound. The meaning is 'settlers, inhabitants'. The main element appears in the place-name Locatrebe of Scotland, the name of the deity Contrebis known from altars at Lancaster and Overborough (RIB 600, 610), the place Contrebia of thc Celtiberi in Spain (now Banos de Sacedon, Guadalajara) and the tribe Arrotrebae of N. Spain mentioned by Pliny. Further treb- names in Spain are listed by Tovar in EC XI (1966-67), 246. Cognates include Latin tribus, Germanie thorpa (English thorp); modem Celtic derivatives arc mentioned by Williams. In Gaul the name of the Atrebates survives in that of Arras (Pas-de-Calais, France). On the suffïx, stated by some as *-(i)atis, see Holder I. 253 and O'Rahilly EIHM 147; a study of it by G. Combarnous in RIO, 27 (1975), 17-35, is extremely unsound, as it confuses this suffïx with others and with elements similar only in appearance. Tribal names seem much given to variation of declension when taking Latin forms. The Atrebates are not only Atrebatii, as above, but their Gaulish part is also Atrebatae in Orosius. In Britain we find Calidonii - Caledones, Novantae beside Trinovantes, Selgovae - *Selgoves and Smertae - *Smerti. Such variations are found not uncommonly also in Gaul, Spain, etc.

IDENTIFICATION. A people of southern Britain with their capital at Calleva, Silchester, Hampshire.

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Histoire : 

Compte tenu des positions observées des différentes tribus du sud de l'Île de Bretagne, on peut affirmer que ceux-ci font partie la quatrième vague indo-européenne, celle des Belgae, qualifiable encore de 'celtique', en Île de Bretagne. On peut donc envisager qu'ils seraient apparus dans l'Île vers 200 avant J-C, soumettant ou repoussant la vague antérieure des *D°mn- ( = Dumnonii). Les Atrebates de (Grande) Bretagne sont issus d'une démembrement des Atrebates de Gaule belgique (aujourd'hui Artois et Arras). 

Conquête romaine : 

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Provinces romaines :

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Époque arthurienne et invasion saxonne :

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Sources; bibliographie : 

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979 - 1982.

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