Cadurci
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The Cadurci were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the later region of Quercy (in present-day France) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as Cadurcus by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC),Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, 7:4:6. Kadou͂rkoi (Καδοῦρκοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:2:2; Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:7:9. and as Cadurci by Pliny (1st c. AD).Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:109.{{Harvnb|Falileyev|2010}}, s.v. Cadurci.
The etymology of the ethnonym Cadurci remains uncertain. Pierre-Yves Lambert has proposed to interpret it as a haplology (loss of syllabe) for the Gaulish compound Catu-turci ('battle-boars'), formed with the root catu- ('combat, battle') attached to the plural of turcos ('wild boar').{{Sfn|Lambert|1994|p=46}}{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=304}}
The city of Cahors, attested ca. 400 AD as civitas Cadurcorum ('civitas of the Cadurci', Cauricio in 1200, Caurs 1279), and the region of Quercy, attested in 565 AD as Cadurcinus (pagus Catorcinus in 628, Caercino in 1095, with Latin suffix -inus), are named after the Gallic tribe.{{Sfn|Nègre|1990|pp=152–143}}
Geography
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- {{Cite book|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|date=2003|publisher=Errance|isbn=9782877723695|author-link=Xavier Delamarre}}
- {{Cite book|last=Falileyev|first=Alexander|title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=CMCS|year=2010|isbn=978-0955718236}}
- {{Cite book|last=Lambert|first=Pierre-Yves|title=La langue gauloise: description linguistique, commentaire d'inscriptions choisies|year=1994|publisher=Errance|isbn=978-2-87772-089-2|author-link=Pierre-Yves Lambert}}
- {{Cite book|last=Nègre|first=Ernest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsNpi7IVulEC|title=Toponymie générale de la France|date=1990|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-02883-7|author-link=Ernest Nègre}}
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