Editing Boii (section)

===Boii on the Danube===
Contrary to the interpretation of the classical writers, the Pannonian Boii attested in later sources are not simply the remnants of those who had fled from Italy, but rather another division of the tribe, which had settled there much earlier.

The burial rites of the Italian Boii show many similarities with contemporary Bohemia, such as [[inhumation]], which was uncommon with the other Cisalpine Gauls, or the absence of the typically western Celtic [[torc]]s.<ref>Cunliffe, Barry (1999). ''The Ancient Celts'', Penguin Books, pp. 72f.</ref>

This makes it much more likely that the Cisalpine Boii had actually originated from Bohemia rather than the other way round.<ref>{{harvnb|Birkhan|1999|p=124}}</ref>

Having migrated to Italy from north of the Alps, some of the defeated Celts simply moved back to their kinsfolk.<ref group="note">Other tribes of whom divisions are attested both in the 'Celtic homeland' and at the periphery include the Senones (Umbria and the Marne region), Lingones (Aemilia and the Langres plateau), Cenomani (Venetia and Maine), Tectosages (Galatia and Provence).</ref>

The Pannonian Boii are mentioned again in the late 2nd century BC when they repelled the [[Cimbri]] and [[Teutones]] (Strabo VII, 2, 2). Later on, they attacked the city of [[Noreia]] (in modern Austria) shortly before a group of Boii (32,000 according to [[Julius Caesar]]) joined the [[Helvetii]] in their attempt to settle in western Gaul.<ref>Howorth, Henry H., "The Germans of Caesar", ''The English Historical Review'', vol. 27, no. 91, pp. 417-433, July 1908.</ref>

After the Helvetian defeat at [[Bibracte]], the influential [[Aedui]] tribe allowed the Boii survivors to settle on their territory, where they occupied the ''oppidum'' of [[Gorgobina]]. Although attacked by [[Vercingetorix]] during one phase of the war, they supported him with two thousand troops at the battle of [[Alesia (city)|Alesia]] (Caesar, ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'', VII, 75).

Again, other parts of the Boii had remained closer to their traditional home, and settled in the Slovak and [[Hungary|Hungarian lowlands]] by the [[Danube]] and the [[Mur River|Mura]], with a centre at [[Bratislava]].