Ambarri

The Ambarri were a Gallic people dwelling in the modern Ain department during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

They are mentioned as Ambarri and Ambarros by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC),[1] and as Ambarros by Livy (late-1st c. BC),[2][3] The Gaulish ethnonym Ambarri could mean 'on both sides of the Saône river', stemming from the Gaulish suffix amb- ('around') attached to the pre-Celtic name of the Saône river, Arar.

[4] It has also been interpreted as a contraction of Ambi-barii ('the very-angry'), formed with the intensifying Gaulish suffix ambi- attached to bar(i)o- ('wrath, fury, passion'; cf.

They are mentioned by Livy (v. 34) with the Aedui among those Galli who were said to have crossed the Alps into Italy in the time of Tarquinius Priscus.

According to the Roman historian Titus Livius, the Ambarri joined Bellovesus' legendary migrations ca.

Ambarri gold coin, 5th-1st century BCE.
A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic tribes.