Viromandui

The Viromanduer (Latin: Viromandui, French: Viromanduens or Viromand (ue ) s ) were members of a Celtic tribe who lived in ancient times in the northeast of present-day France. They belonged to the people of the Belger.

Settlement area

The main settlement area of ​​the Viromanduer was in northeastern France in the present Vermandois. Their capital was Augusta Viromanduorumund is now called Saint- Quentin. A second settlement that was inhabited in antiquity by Viromanduern, Arras was. Among its neighboring tribes were the Atrebates, the Eburons and the mighty Nervians.

History

The Viromanduer lived in ancient times on the European continent in close economic and military cooperation with the far larger tribe of Nervians. 57 BC, the Celtic tribe felt threatened by the legions of the governor Julius Caesar and formed an alliance with the Nervii and the Atrebates. The root of the Viromanduer could make 10,000 armed warrior for the resistance against Caesar, but was defeated in the Battle of the Sambre by the Romans. Some fled to the Atrebates to Britain, others surrendered to the Roman occupiers. With the end of the Gallic War, the Viromanduer were not a separate people more.

Swell

• Gaius Iulius Caesar: De Bello Gallico, 2, 16-28