Vacomagi
Introduction 180pxThe '''Vacomagi''' were a people of ancient Britain, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Ptolemy c. 150.From his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors, their territory was the region roughly comprehending the old districts of Banffshire, Elginshire, Nairnshire, and the eastern portion of Inverness-shire. Ptolemy says that their towns or principal places were called 'Bannatia', 'Tamia', ''Pinnata Castra'', and 'Tuesis'.
Etymology The origin of the name ''Vacomagi'' is uncertain. A possibility is that ''Vacomagi'' may come from the old British words '''vaco''', a bay or firth, and ''magh'', a plain. Hence, the people of the plain of the firth. Andrew Breeze's proposed etymological genesis from Brittonic ''*wocomiugi'' meaning "‘those who are strongly bound together" (> Welsh ''gogyfiaw'') has been adjudged unlikely due to the number of textual amendments required.
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