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The Deciates (?e???ta?) were a Ligurian
Ligures

The Ligures were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ?people of the water?....
 tribe in the first few centuries BC. They lived in the Antibes
Antibes

Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France in southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera, located between Cannes and Nice....
 area of what is now France, west of the river Var
Var River

The Var is a river located in the southeast of France. The name Var originates from the Ligurian language word for waterway.The Var flows through the Alpes-Maritimes d?partement in France for most of its length, with a short stretch in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence d?partement....
 (Smith, ; Cosson, pp.20-23). The border with the Ligurian Oxybii
Oxybii

The Oxybii were a Ligures tribe living on the Mediterranean coast of France near Marseilles. The border with the Ligurian Deciates being to the west of Antibes and east of Frejus ....
 (???ß???) being to the west of Antipolis
Antibes

Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France in southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera, located between Cannes and Nice....
 and east of Forum Julii
Fréjus

Fr?jus is a coastal town on the C?te d'Azur and Communes of France in the Var Departments of France, in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur regions of France of southern France....
 (Smith, ).






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The Deciates (?e???ta?) were a Ligurian
Ligures

The Ligures were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ?people of the water?....
 tribe in the first few centuries BC. They lived in the Antibes
Antibes

Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France in southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera, located between Cannes and Nice....
 area of what is now France, west of the river Var
Var River

The Var is a river located in the southeast of France. The name Var originates from the Ligurian language word for waterway.The Var flows through the Alpes-Maritimes d?partement in France for most of its length, with a short stretch in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence d?partement....
 (Smith, ; Cosson, pp.20-23). The border with the Ligurian Oxybii
Oxybii

The Oxybii were a Ligures tribe living on the Mediterranean coast of France near Marseilles. The border with the Ligurian Deciates being to the west of Antibes and east of Frejus ....
 (???ß???) being to the west of Antipolis
Antibes

Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France in southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera, located between Cannes and Nice....
 and east of Forum Julii
Fréjus

Fr?jus is a coastal town on the C?te d'Azur and Communes of France in the Var Departments of France, in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur regions of France of southern France....
 (Smith, ). The Deciates had a town in the area, oppidum Deciatum but this was not Antibes itself (Pliny the Elder, Chorographia, 2.69):

In litoribus aliquot sunt cum aliquis nominibus loca: ceterum rarae urbes quia rari portus, et omnis plaga austro atque africo exposita est. Nicaea tangit Alpes, tangit oppidum Deciatum, tangit Antipolis.