Boii

The Boii were a Celtic people, possibly a fragment of the wider Boii of Central Europe and the Italian Peninsula, who took part in the migration of the Helvetii in 58 BC. After the Helvetii were defeated at the Battle of Bibracte, they were settled by Julius Caesar among the Aedui in central Gaul. Their one recorded stronghold was an oppidum named Gorgobina. Ancient writers describe them as a small people of slender means. The Boii intervened in the Gallic War of 52 BC on the side of the coalition led by Vercingetorix. They are last attested in the later 1st century AD.