Editing Brittany (section)

===Gallic era===
[[File:Celtic_Tribes_in_Brittany.svg|thumb|right|The five Gallic tribes of Brittany]]
During the [[Protohistory|protohistorical period]], Brittany was inhabited by five Celtic tribes:<ref name="VenceslasKruta">{{Cite book|author=Venceslas Kruta|title=Les Celtes, Histoire et Dictionnaire|page=427|publisher=Robert Laffont|year=2000|isbn=2-7028-6261-6}}</ref>
* The [[Curiosolitae]], who lived around the present town of [[Corseul]]. Their territory encompassed parts of [[Côtes-d'Armor]], Ille-et-Vilaine and [[Morbihan]] ''[[département]]s''.
* The [[Namnetes]], who lived in the current [[Loire-Atlantique]] ''[[département]]'' (in today's administrative ''région'' of [[Pays de la Loire]]), north of the [[Loire]]. They gave their name to the city of [[Nantes]]. The south bank of the river was occupied by an allied tribe, the Ambilatres,<ref>{{Cite book|author=Giot (P. R), Briard (J.) and Pape (L.)|title=Protohistoire de la Bretagne|publisher=Ouest-France Université|year=1995|page=370}}</ref> whose existence and territory remain unsure.<ref name="VenceslasKruta" />
* The [[Osismii]], who lived in the western part of Brittany. Their territory comprised the [[Finistère]] ''[[département]]'' and the western extremity of [[Côtes-d'Armor]] and [[Morbihan]].
* The [[Redones]] (or ''Rhedones''), who lived in the eastern part of the [[Ille-et-Vilaine]] ''[[département]]''. They gave their name to the city of [[Rennes]] (''Roazhon'' in Breton language, in the center of the département) and to the town of [[Redon]] (in the south of the ''département'', bordering the ''département'' of [[Loire-Atlantique]] in the administrative ''région'' of [[Pays de la Loire]], where its suburb town of [[Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon]] is located; however the city of Redon was founded around AD 832 under the initial name of ''Riedones'', long after the ''Redones'' people were assimilated to Bretons; the cultural link between ''Riedones'' and the former ''Redones'' people is highly probable but difficult to recover and the name of ''Riedones'' may have been written from a local usage preserving the name of the former people in the vernacular oral language from a reading of an ancient Greek orthography).
* The [[Veneti (Gaul)|Veneti]], who lived in the present [[Morbihan]] ''[[département]]'' and gave their name to the city of [[Vannes]]. Despite confusion by the classical scholar [[Strabo]], they were unrelated to the [[Adriatic Veneti]].

Those people had strong economic ties to the [[Insular Celts]], especially for the [[tin]] trade {{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}. Several tribes also belonged to an "Armorican [[confederation]]" which, according to [[Julius Caesar]], gathered the [[Curiosolitae]], the [[Redones]], the [[Osismii]], the [[Unelli]], the [[Caletes]], the [[Lemovices]] and the Ambibarii.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Commentarii de Bello Gallico|author=Julius Caesar|page=75|section=VII}}</ref> The Unelli, Caletes, and Lemovices were respectively located in [[Cotentin]] (Lower-Normandy), [[pays de Caux]] (Upper-Normandy), and [[Limousin]] (Aquitaine); the location of the Ambibarii is unknown. The Caletes are sometimes also considered Belgians, and ''Lemovices'' is probably a mistake for ''[[Lexovii]]'' (Lower-Normandy).{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}