Caletes

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The Caletes or Caleti ([Calētēs or Calētī] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) were a Gaulish or a Belgic tribe of present-day Normandy. They occupied a section of the coast, between the Sequana and the Phrudis rivers.[1]

Harfleur (Caracotinum) was their principal port.

This map of Northern Gaul shows the exact position of the Caletes on the southern shore of the English Channel: [1]

References

  1. ^ William Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer (1851), p. 86
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