The Tricasses were a Gallic tribe dwelling on the upper Seine and the Aube rivers during the Roman period.
[1] They are mentioned as Tricasses by Pliny (1st c. AD),[2] and as Trikásioi (Τρικάσιοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c.
[5] The meaning of the second element -casses, attested in other Gaulish ethnonyms such as Bodiocasses, Durocasses, Sucasses, Veliocasses or Viducasses, has been debated, but it probably signifies '(curly) hair, hairstyle' (cf.
400 AD as civitas Tricassium ('civitas of the Tricasses'; Trecassis in the 7th c., Treci in 890, Troies in 1230), is named after the Gallic tribe.
[1] From the reign of Augustus, Augustobona Tricassium (modern Troyes) was the chief town of their civitas.