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Umgebung:

Voie Romaine de Amiens à Bavayroman road between Bavay and Cambrai

Lage:

  • Frankreich, Saulzoir
  • geo:50.236866,3.442972
  • Lage ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -57 / -56

Klassification:

  • Historisches Ereignis
  • Sichtbar

Anmerkungen

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

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

In der Nähe

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