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Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain, Road
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain, Road
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain, Watercourse
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Plain
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Sabis, Battlefield of the battle between the Nervians and the Romans led by Gaius Julius Caesar Road
Date: BCE_0057c
Category: Gaul, Roman Empire
Institution:
Place of discovery: Flumen Sabis
Collection: Livius

Surroundings:

Voie Romaine de Amiens à Bavay

roman road between Bavay and Cambrai

Site of historic event

Location:

France, Saulzoir
geo:50.236866,3.442972
Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

-57 / -56

Class:

Site of historic event
visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Caesar defeats the Nervii. 57 BC.

The Selle River or the River Sambre? Until the early 20th Century, it was believed that this battle was on the Sambre river by Neuf-Mesnil. Recent studies show that the fight was at this point on the river Selle.

See

Caesar besiegt den Nervii. 57 v. Chr.

Der Fluss Selle oder den Fluss Sambre? Bis Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts glaubte man, dass diese Schlacht an der Sambre bei Neuf-Mesnil war. Neuere Untersuchungen zeigen, dass der Kampf an dieser Stelle war.

Siehe:http://www.livius.org/se-sg/selle/sabis.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sabis

Battle of the Sabis (57 BCE): fight in which Julius Caesar defeated the Belgian tribe of the Nervians. The Sabis is identical to the modern river Selle in northern France.

Literature

Pierre Turquin, "La Bataille de la Selle (du Sabis) en l' An 57 avant J.-C." in Les Études Classiques 23/2 (1955), 113-156

Nearby

Hermoniacum (5 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace597

Voie Romaine de Amiens à Bavay (6 km)

Voie Romaine de Amiens à Bavay

roman road Bavay - Cambrai (8 km)

Roman road between Bavay and Cambrai