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The Roman force was victorious. Towards the end of the Second Punic War , tribes in Cisalpine Gaul rebelled against the Republic, sacking the city of Placentia . The governor of the area, Lucius Furius Purpureo , following senatorial orders, disbanded all but 5,000 men in his army and took up defences at Ariminum .
Invasion of Gauls in the 4th to 3rd centuries BC Peoples at the time of the Picentine war 269-267 BC. Over the course of nearly four centuries, the Roman Republic fought a series of wars against various Celtic tribes, whom they collectively described as Galli, or Gauls.
The Dying Gaul, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, showing the face, hairstyle and torc of a Gaul or Galatian. First-century BC Roman poet Virgil wrote that the Gauls were light-haired, and golden their garb: Golden is their hair and golden their garb. They are resplendant in their striped cloaks and their milk white necks are circled in ...
The campaigns might have continued into Germanic lands, if not for the impending Roman civil war. The legions in Gaul were eventually pulled out in 50 BC as the civil war drew near, for Caesar would need them to defeat his enemies in Rome. The Gauls had not been entirely subjugated and were not yet a formal part of the empire. But that task was ...
Battle of Placentia (194 BC) – Roman victory over the Boian Gauls; Battle of Mutina (193 BC) – Roman victory over the Boii, decisively ending the Boian threat. Roman–Seleucid War (192 BCE – 188 BCE) [2] (not to be confused with the Syrian Wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt)
The Roman Republic's influence began in southern Gaul. By the mid-2nd century BC, Rome was trading heavily with the Greek colony of Massilia (modern Marseille) and entered into an alliance with them, by which Rome agreed to protect the town from local Gauls, including the nearby Aquitani and from sea-borne Carthaginians and other rivals, in exchange for land that the Romans wanted in order to ...
Roman silver denarius with the head of captive Gaul 48 BC, following the campaigns of Caesar. During the spring of 56 BC a conference was held at Luca (modern Lucca) in Cisalpine Gaul. Rome was in turmoil, and Clodius' populist campaigns had been undermining relations between Crassus and Pompey. The meeting renewed the Triumvirate and extended ...
The Senones were a Gaulish tribe originating from the part of France at present known as Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne, who had expanded to occupy northern Italy. [1] At around 400 BC, a branch of the Senones made their way over the Alps and, having driven out the Umbrians, settled on the east coast of Italy from Ariminum to Ancona, in the so-called Ager Gallicus, and founded the town of ...