Elusates

Aquitani tribes at both sides of the Pyrenees.
Coins of the Elusates 5th-1st century BCE.

The Elusates were an Aquitani pre-Roman tribe settled in what today is southwestern France, in the northeast of the Aquitaine territory, around the city of Elusa, which is present-day Eauze, in the French department of Gers.[1] They were subdued by Publius Crassus, legatus of Caesar in 56 BCE.[1]

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  1. 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Sir William Smith p.822

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