Allob'roges

Allob'roges, a Celtic race of Gaul, whose territory lay between the Isère, the Lake of Geneva, and the Rhone, corresponding to the later Dauphiné and Savoy. Their chief town was Vienna (Vienne); their frontier town against the Helvetii, Geneva. First heard of as allies of Hannibal at the time of his invasion, 218 B.C., they were subjected to the Roman yoke in 121 by Quintus Fabius Maximus, thence called Allobrogicus, and from that time were governed as a part of Gallia Narbonensis. But they were civilised with difficulty, and were ever ready for rebellion.