Abrincatui

The Abrincatui were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the south of the Cotentin Peninsula during the Roman period.

[3][4] The city of Avranches, attested in the 6th c. AD as civitas Abrincatum ('civitas of the Abrincatui', Abrincae ca.

550, de Avrenchis in 1055–66), and the region of Avranchin, are named after the Gallic tribe.

[6] However, the area of Mortainais was mostly uninhabited until the Roman period, and remained sparsely populated at the turn of the first millennium AD.

[7] Two pre-Roman oppida were located in Le Petit-Celland and Carolles, with other settlements in Montanel and near Mortain.