The Calucones were a Gallic or Rhaetian tribe dwelling around present-day Chur (eastern Switzerland) during the Roman period.
Name They are mentioned as Calucones (var. Callucones, Allucones) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as kaloúkōnes (καλούκωνες; var. καλούκονες, κουλούκωνες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:12:2., s.v. Calucones.
The etymology of the name remains debated. It could go back to a Celtic form calo-uco-on-, derived from the stem calo- ('call'). Alternatively, it may be derived from a stem *calu- ('hard') attached to -cones ('wolves'), and translated as 'hard wolves'.
An homonym tribe, the Kaloukones, lived further north, near the Germanic Suebi.
Geography The Calucones probably dwelled around present-day Chur (Curia), in the Canton of Grisons.
The Barrington Atlas locates their territory north of the Suanetes and Rugusci, west of the Focunates and Venostes, south of the Vennones., Map 19: Raetia.
History They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20.
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See also Rhaetian people