Everything about The Demetae totally explained
The
Demetae were a
Celtic people of
Iron Age Britain who inhabited modern
Pembrokeshire and
Carmarthenshire in south-west
Wales, and gave their name to the county of
Dyfed.
They are mentioned in
Ptolemy's
Geographia, as being west of the
Silures. He mentions two of their towns,
Moridunum (modern
Carmarthen) and
Luentinum (identified as the
Dolaucothi Gold Mines near
Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire). They are not mentioned in
Tacitus' accounts of Roman warfare in Wales, which concentrate on their neighbours the Silures and
Ordovices.
Vortiporius, "tyrant of the Demetae", is one of the kings condemned by
Gildas in his 6th century polemic
De Excidio Britanniae. This probably signifies the
sub-Roman kingdom of Dyfed.
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