Suessions
The Suessionen (Latin Suessiones ) were a Belgian tribe in northern Gaul who settled in the city named after them, Augusta Suessionum (now Soissons ) .
history
According to Gaius Iulius Caesar , who gives a brief description of the Suessionen in his work de bello Gallico as part of his description of the Gallic War , the area of this Celtic tribe was particularly fertile. He further writes that the Suessionen around 80 BC. Under their King Diviciacus were one of the most powerful Gauls tribes and their territory extended to the south-east of Britain . In Caesar's time they settled in twelve cities and were under the rule of King Galba , who also ruled the neighboring tribe of the Remer . They fought against the Romans in association with other Belgian tribes, but were subdued. Caesar placed them under the rule of the Remer. Later the civitas of the Suessionen was incorporated into the Roman province of Belgica .
Individual evidence
swell
- Caesar De bello Gallico 2,3 ; 2.4 ; 2.12 ; 2.13
literature
- Marcel Le Glay : Suessiones. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 410.