The Nerusii appear near the end of the list of tribes on the
Tropaeum Alpium, before the
Velaunii and the
Suetrii, without any precise geographical indication.
Ptolemy, however, assigns their chief town as Vintium (
Vence), which effectively defines the territory attributed to them as the area that later formed the
civitas and then the
diocese of Vence. The former boundaries of the diocese are well established: to the east it followed the
Var from its mouth to its junction with the
Estéron; to the west the
Loup, up to its source on the Audibergue mountain; and to the north it ran along the crests of the Thorenc and the Cheiron mountains. These early medieval limits already corresponded to those of the
civitas Vintiensium in the Roman period and, earlier, of the territory of the Nerusii. == History ==