While thinking about the present names of EB settlements, I have realized, that despite being Czech, i.e. living more-or-less in the territory of EB province Mrogbonna, I have no idea which of the numerous Celtic archeological sites its capital - Eburonum - represents. A brief survey on the Internet, however, pointed to somewhat disturbing direction: Eburonum is actually mentioned in the Caesar´s Commentarii not in the central Europe but on the Rhine.
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"Trans Rhenum ad Germanos pervenit fama diripi Eburones atque ultro omnes ad praedam evocari. [5] Cogunt equitum duo milia Sugambri, qui sunt proximi Rheno, a quibns receptos ex fuga Tencteros atque Usipetes supra docuimus. [6] Transeunt Rhenum navibus ratibusque XXX milibus passuum infra eum locum, ubi pons erat perfectus praesidiumque a Caesare relictum; primos Eburonum fines adeunt; multos ex fuga dispersos excipiunt, magno pecoris numero, cuius sunt cupidissimi barbari, potiuntur." (C. IULI CAESARIS, DE BELLO GALLICO, COMMENTARIUS SEXTUS, 35,4-6)
Also a geographical index apparentely based on Itinerary of Antonine and the Table of Peutinger places Eburones between Rhine and Meuse.
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"Eburones. - The greater part of their country was between the Rhine and the Meuse (v, 24, §4); so we may infer that the remaining part was west of the Meuse. Their neighbours on the south were the Treveri, the Segni, and the Condrusi (vi, 32, §1); on the north the Menapii (33, §§1 - 2), and on the south-west the Atuatuci (v, 38, §1). Their territory may also have been conterminous on the west with that of the Nervii. But it is impossible to define the frontiers of any of these people except perhaps the Nervii, and therefore it is impossible to define the frontier of the Eburones. We only know that it extended westward of Bonn and Cologne and included parts of the provinces of Limbourg and Liege (C.G., p.387)." http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellu.../holmesgi.html
Therefore I would like to ask some-one more knowledgable in "Materia Celtica" if he/she could clarify this apparent inconsistency between EB representation and these particular sources mentioned above.
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