La Picardie existe-t-elle dans l'Antiquité

Does Picardie Exist in Antiquity ? Before the creation, in 1964, of a rather artificially delineated "Région Picardie", Picardie had never had a political existence of its own ; it was essensially based, and had been so since the Middle Ages, on linguistic differences. Yet, the Bellum Gallicum stresses the importance of a group called by Caesar the Belgium, composed of the Ambians, the Atrebates and the Bellovaques, together with some satellites. Several clues lead us to think that the Belgium was not only an ethnic, cultural and geographical group within the Gaule Belgique, but also a politically structured group, remote ancestor of a Picardie currently in the making. Caesar, indeed, insists on the specificity of the Belgians, depicted as warriors all the more frightening as they are closer to the Barbarians, more distant from the enervating effets of civilization : this cliché seems to conceal other realities, among which that of a force deriving from political cohesion around a nucleus, the Belgium

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• L'ossuaire gaulois de Ribemont-sur-Ancre (Somme). Premières observations, premières questions

  Open Access•Jean Louis Cadoux•Gallia•1984

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