People
Rauraci
Augst (city)
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The Rauraci were a Celtic people, neighbours of the Helvetii, who lived between the Upper Rhine and the foot of the Jura. In 58 BC they joined the Helvetii on their westward migration, and in 44 BC the Roman general Munatius Plancus founded the colony of Augusta Raurica on their land, today Augst in Switzerland, near Basel. The map places their name far from that capital, beside Lake Geneva. Scholars have read this slip as a sign that the names of peoples come from an older layer of the map than its road network.