Caereni
Encyclopedia
The Caereni were a people of ancient Britain
, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer
Ptolemy
c. 150. From his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors, their territory was along the western coast of modern Sutherland
. Ptolemy does not provide them with a town or principal place.
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
c. 150. From his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors, their territory was along the western coast of modern Sutherland
Sutherland
Sutherland is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic administrative county of Scotland. It is now within the Highland local government area. In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh , Asainte , and Cataibh...
. Ptolemy does not provide them with a town or principal place.