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CENTRAL BRITAIN

Catuvellauni - modern Hertfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Greater London north of the Thames

Cornovii - modern Cheshire , Derbyshire and Shropshire

Coritani - modern Lincolnshire , Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire

Dobunni - modern Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Oxfordshire and West Midlands

Iceni - modern Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

Parisi - modern East Yorkshire

Trinovantes - modern Essex and Suffolk

NORTHERN BRITAIN

Brigantes - modern Yorkshire , Cumbria , Lancashire and County Durham

Caereni - modern west Sutherland

Caledonii - Scottish Highlands

Carnonacae - modern west Ross And Cromarty

Carvetti - modern northern Cumbria , around Carlisle and the upper valley of the River Eden ---

Cornavii - modern east Sutherland and Caithness

Corionotatae - modern Scottish borders, probably a Sept of the Selgovae

Creones - modern Argyll

Damnonii - modern Strathclyde

Decantae - modern east Ross And Cromarty

Epiddii - modern Mull Of Kintyre

Gabrantovices - modern North Yorkshire ---

Lopocares - south side of Hadrian's Wall around Corbridge ---

Lugi - modern south east Sutherland

Novantae - modern Dumfries And Galloway

Selgovae - modern Scottish Borders and eastern Dumfries And Galloway

Setantii - part of modern Lancashire around the Fylde ---

Smertae - Ross And Cromarty

Taexali - modern Aberdeenshire

Textoverdi - south side of Hadrian's Wall in the upper valley of the River Tyne ---

Vacomagi - modern north Grampian region

Venicones - modern Fife and southern Tayside

Votadini - coasts of modern Northumberland , Scottish Borders and East Lothian

) tribes were Sept s or Pagi within Brigantine territory.

SOUTHERN BRITAIN

Atrebates - modern Hampshire and the Thames Valley

Belgae - (in this context) modern Hampshire and Gloucestershire

Cantiaci - modern Kent

Durotriges - modern Somerset and Dorset

Dumnonii - modern Devon , Cornwall and Somerset

Regnenses - modern Surrey and Sussex

WESTERN BRITAIN

Deceangli - modern Flintshire and Denbighshire

Demetae modern Pembrokeshire and west Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire

Gangani - modern Lleyn Peninsula , likely a Sept of the Ordovices

Ordovices - modern Anglesey , Snowdonia and Powys

Silures - modern South Wales

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anon, 1994, ''Historical Map and Guide Roman Britain'' (map), Ordnance Survey , Fourth Edition (Revised)

Frere, S, 1987, ''Britannia'', Routledge, London