Cavari

The Cavarī or Cavarēs (Gaulish: *Cauaroi, 'the heroes, champions, mighty men') were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the western part of modern Vaucluse, around the present-day cities of Avignon, Orange and Cavaillon, during the Roman period.

They were at the head of a confederation of tribes that included the Tricastini, Segovellauni and Memini, and whose territory stretched further north along the Rhône Valley up to the Isère river.

[9] Their territory was located west of the Vocontii, Memini, Albici and Dexivates, south of the Segovellauni and Tricastini, east of the Volcae Arecomici, north of the Anatilii and Salyes.

[11]Strabo mentioned that the lands from Cabellio (Cavaillon) up to the confluence of the Isère with the Rhône belonged to the Cavari, Pliny placed Valence in Cavarian territory, and Ptolemy located them immediately south of the Segovellauni, which indicates that they controlled, further north of their homeland, a strip of land along the Rhône up to the confluence of this river with the Isère.

[12] ... if you cross the river by ferry into the city of Caballio, the whole country next thereafter belongs to the Cavari, up to the confluence of the Isar with the Rhodanus; this is also approximately where the Cemmenus Mountain joins the Rhodanus; the length of your journey from Druentia up to this place is seven hundred stadia.The pre-Roman hill-fort of the Cavari was probably situated on the Colline St-Eutrope [fr], a hill overlooking the modern town of Orange, Vaucluse.

In the aftermath of a decisive Gallic defeat at the Battle of the Isère River in August of the same year, the territory of the Cavari was integrated into the province of Gallia Transalpina some time between 120 and 117 BC.

[17]At the time of Augustus (27 BC–14 AD), the Cavari were at the head of a confederation stretching between the Durance and the Isère river, and which included the Memini, Tricastini and Segovellauni.