chiefdom · British Isles

Segontiaci

54 BCE – 54 BCE (approx.)

British people recorded only by Julius Caesar, one of five groups that submitted to him in 54 BCE during his second campaign in Britain.

Origins

The Segontiaci appear once in Caesar's Gallic War, among the peoples who surrendered after the Trinovantes made terms with Rome in 54 BCE. The others were the Cenimagni, Ancalites, Bibroci and Cassi.

Rule and society

Nothing is known of their government or way of life. Their territory has often been placed in northern Hampshire, around the later Roman town of Calleva, partly because a Roman-period name there has been compared with theirs, but this remains a guess.

Decline and legacy

They disappear from the record after 54 BCE. If they lived around Silchester, their lands were later part of the realm of the Atrebates (Britain) before the Roman conquest of 43.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Segontiaci. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/segontiaci
MLA
“Segontiaci.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/segontiaci. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Segontiaci.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/segontiaci.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Segontiaci’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/segontiaci (Accessed: ).

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