chiefdom · France and the Low Countries

Viducasses

300 BCE – 56 BCE (approx.) · capital Aregenua

Small Gallic people of the Caen plain whose Roman town at Vieux has yielded the famous Thorigny marble.

Origins

Known from Pliny and Ptolemy, the Viducasses lived south of modern Caen in lower Normandy. They were probably included among the Armorican peoples in Caesar's time.

Rule and society

Nothing is recorded of their rulers. Their chief town, Aregenua, lay at Vieux.

Decline and legacy

Under Rome Aregenua became a prosperous civitas capital with baths and fine houses. The Thorigny marble, an inscription of 238 CE, honours one of its citizens, Titus Sennius Sollemnis. The civitas later merged with that of the Baiocasses.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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

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