The
Treveri or
Treviri were a
Belgic tribe who inhabited the lower valley of the
Moselle from around 150 BCE, if not earlier, until their eventual absorption into the
Franks. Their domain lay within the southern fringes of the
Silva Arduenna (
Ardennes Forest), a part of the vast
Silva Carbonaria, in what are now
Luxembourg, southeastern
Belgium and western Germany; its centre was the city of
Trier (
Augusta Treverorum), to which the Treveri give their name.
Celtic in language, according to
Tacitus they claimed Germanic descent.