chiefdom · France and the Low Countries

Tricasses

300 BCE – 51 BCE (approx.)

Small Gallic people of the upper Seine whose Roman town Augustobona became Troyes.

Origins

The Tricasses are not mentioned by Caesar and were probably dependents of the Senones in his time. Pliny and Ptolemy record them as a separate people on the Seine in Champagne.

Rule and society

Nothing is known of their pre-Roman institutions.

Decline and legacy

Under Rome they formed a civitas with Augustobona as its chief town, later called Trecae after the people, the origin of Troyes. Bishop Lupus of Troyes is said to have negotiated with Attila in 451, and the city became capital of the County of Champagne.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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

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