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Tornates

Eth. Tornates an Aquitanian people, whose name is preserved in Pliny (4.19). There is no indication of their position, unless it be the name Tournai, a small town on the Arros, a branch of the Adour, and in the diocese of Tarbes, which, under the name of Turba, was the chief place of the Bigerriones. [BIGERRIONES]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.