TheTricornenses of Tricornum (modernRitopek) were a RomanizedThraco-Celtic[1][2] artificially[3] created community by the Romans that replaced the CelticCelegeri.[4] The inhabitants of Tricornum were Celtic and Thracian, attested by epigraphic sources.[1] After 6 AD, the Tricornenses were one of the four units ofUpper Moesia alongside theDardani,Moesi and Picenses.[5] The ceremonial parade armour found at Ritopek belonged to a Tricornian soldier ofLegio VII Claudia, dating to AD 258.[1]
