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Does Corieltavi Mean ‘Army of Many Rivers’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Andrew Breeze
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The British people formerly known to scholars as Coritani, but now commonly referred to as Corieltauvi, lived in the region of Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln, with their capital at Ratae, or Leicester. Their name was recovered as follows. They appear in Ptolemy as Coritani (variant Contavi) and the Ravenna Cosmography as Rate Corion (taken as an abbreviated form). Coritani and Corion resisted every attempt to extract a meaning from them.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 82 , September 2002 , pp. 307 - 309
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2002

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