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Location

  • France, Saulzoir
  • geo:50.236866,3.442972

Period or year

  • -57 / -56

Classification

  • event
  • Visible

Battle of the Sabis

data access 10344

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

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Creators: Entry created by Randal Gilbert (2012-11-11) , last updated by Jona Lendering (2020-08-10), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/10344
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: Gilbert, R. and Lendering, J., Battle of the Sabis. https://vici.org/vici/10344, accessed 2026-11-08.