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    The Ambiani were a Belgic tribe that lived in northern France along the Somme River valley during the Iron Age and Roman period. They participated in battles against invaders in the 2nd century BC and fought against Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars in the 1st century BC before eventually being subjugated by Rome in 51 BC. The Ambiani were known for their coinage and extensive trade networks across the English Channel. Their main settlement was the city of Samarobriva, now known as Amiens, which became the administrative center of the region under Roman rule.

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    The Ambiani were a Belgic tribe that lived in northern France along the Somme River valley during the Iron Age and Roman period. They participated in battles against invaders in the 2nd century BC and fought against Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars in the 1st century BC before eventually being subjugated by Rome in 51 BC. The Ambiani were known for their coinage and extensive trade networks across the English Channel. Their main settlement was the city of Samarobriva, now known as Amiens, which became the administrative center of the region under Roman rule.

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    The Ambiani were a Belgic tribe that lived in northern France along the Somme River valley during the Iron Age and Roman period. They participated in battles against invaders in the 2nd century BC and fought against Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars in the 1st century BC before eventually being subjugated by Rome in 51 BC. The Ambiani were known for their coinage and extensive trade networks across the English Channel. Their main settlement was the city of Samarobriva, now known as Amiens, which became the administrative center of the region under Roman rule.

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    Ambiani hemi stater. Stylized head.


    The Ambiani (Gaulish: Ambiāni, 'those around') were a Belgic coastal tribe dwelling in
    the modern Picardy region during the Iron Age and Roman periods.
    They settled in the region between the 4th century and the second part of the 2nd
    century BC. In 113–101 BC, they took part in the fights against
    the Cimbri and Teutoni invaders during the Cimbrian War. In 57 and 52 BC, they
    participated in Gallic coalitions against Caesar, before their eventual subjugation by
    Rome in 51 BC. The Ambiani are known for their gold coinage, found in both northern
    France and Britain, which attest of extensive trading relations across the Channel.[1][2]

    Name[edit]
    They are mentioned as Ambianos and Ambianis by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC),
    [3]
    Ambianos in the summary of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri (late 1st c. BC),
    [4]
    Ambianoì (Ἀμβιανοὶ) and Ambianoĩs (Ἀμβιανοῖς) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),
    [5]
    Ambiani by Pliny (1st c. AD),[6] Ambianoí (Ἀμβιανοί) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),
    [7]
    Ambianis in the Itinerarium Antonini (early 3rd c. AD),[8] and as Ambianenses in
    the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).[9][10]
    The Gaulish ethnonym Ambiāni literally means 'those around', which is generally
    interpreted as meaning 'the people dwelling around the two banks of the Somme river';
    it is formed with the stem ambi- ('around, on both sides') attached to a suffix -ani.[11]
    [12]
    Linguist Pierre-Yves Lambert has also proposed to translate the name as 'the people
    of the surroundings' – perhaps hyperbolized as 'the people of the world' –, by
    deriving Ambiani from ambio- ('surroundings'), a thematized form of the same
    prefix ambi-.[13]
    The city of Amiens, attested ca. 400 AD as civitas Ambianensium ('civitas of the
    Ambiani'; Ammiens in 1142), is named after the Belgic tribe.[14]

    Geography[edit]
    Territory[edit]

    Reconstructed Ambiani house. Pont-Rémy, Somme.

    The Ambiani dwelled in the modern regions of Vimeux, Ponthieu and Santerre, in the
    present-day Somme department. Their territory was bordered in the north by
    the Canche river, and in the north-east and south-east by the Samara (Somme)
    watershed.[15][2] They were located near the Caletes in the west, the Bellovaci in the
    south, the Morini and Atrebates in the north, and the Viromandui in the east.[16] The
    smaller Catuslougi, who lived between them and the Caletes, were probably a pagus of
    the Ambiani during the Roman period.[2]
    During the pre-Roman period, the area around Samarobriva (Amiens) was probably
    located at the extremity of the Ambianian territory, which extended mainly on the lower
    Somme valley.[17]
    Settlements[edit]
    During the Roman era, the chief town of the Ambiani was known
    as Samarobriva (Gaulish: 'bridge on the river Somme'), corresponding to the modern-
    day city of Amiens.[18][10] Despite the mention of a Samarobrivae by Caesar ca. 54 BC,
    archeological evidence indicate that the settlement was built around a Via Agrippa,
    probably ca. 19–16 BC.[19] Suburbs began to emerge from the middle of the 1st century
    AD in the lower valley.[17]

    History[edit]

    Funerary stelae from Samarobriva.

    The Ambiani settled in their attested homeland between the 4th century and the middle
    of the 2nd century BC.[20] In 113–101 BC, they participated in the fights against
    the Cimbri and Teutoni invaders of Gauls during the Cimbrian War.[21][20]
    During the Gallic Wars in 57 BC, Caesar learnt from his Belgic Remi informants that the
    Ambiani had promised to muster 10,000 armed men against the Roman armies, among
    the lowest.[22][1]
    An equal number were promised by the Nervii, accounted the fiercest among the
    Belgae, and dwelling farthest away; fifteen thousand by the Atrebates, ten by the
    Ambiani...

    — Caesar 1917. Commentarii de Bello Gallico. 2:4.


    During the winter of 54–53 BC, returning from an expedition in Britain, Caesar

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