Lingones were a Celtic tribe that originally lived in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers. Some of the Lingones migrated across the Alps and settled near the mouth of the Po River in Cisalpine Gaul of northern Italy around 400 BC. These Lingones were part of a wave of Celtic tribes that included the Boii and Senoni (Polybius, Histories ii.17). The Lingones may have helped sack Rome in 390 BC. The word Celtic can refer to: the European Celtic people, ancient or modern the Celtic languages, spoken by these people and their modern descendents the Celtic (Lusitania), Celts from the Alentejo. ... Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (from Latin Gallia, c. ... This article is about the river in France. ... Marne is a region in France. ... The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. ... Cisalpine Gaul (Latin: Gallia Cisalpina, meaning Gaul this side of the Alps) was aprovince of the Roman Republic, in modern-day northern Italy. ... Boii is a name for 3 ancient Celtic tribes living in: Transalpine Gaul, modern France Cisalpine Gaul, or northern Italy Bohemia, Moravia and western Slovakia The European region of Bohemia most likely derives its name from the early Celtic people known as the Boii. ... Polybius (ca 203 BC - 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called The Histories or The Rise of the Roman Empire, covering the period of 220 BC to 146 BC. // Personal experiences As the former tutor of the Scipio Africanus the Younger, the...

The Gaulish Lingones were thoroughly Romanized by the first century, living in a rich and urbanized society in the region of Langres and Dijon and minting coins, but getting caught up in the revolt of the Batavians in 69 - 70 CE, described by Tacitus. Categories: France geography stubs | Communes of Haute-Marne ... Location within France Street in the centre of Dijon Dijon (   pronunciation?) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département (county) and of the Bourgogne région. ... Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. ...

The strategist Sextus Julius Frontinus, author of the Strategematicon, the earliest surviving Roman military textbook, mentions the Lingones among his examples of successful military tactics: Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. ...

"In the war waged under the auspices of the Emperor Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus and begun by Julius Civilis in Gaul, the very wealthy city of the Lingones, which had revolted to Civilis, feared that it would be plundered by the approaching army of Caesar. But when, contrary to expectation, the inhabitants remained unharmed and lost none of their property, they returned to their loyalty, and handed over to me seventy thousand armed men."

Their capital was called Andematunnum, then Lingones, now Langres, Haute-Marne, France. It was built on a rocky promontory above the Marne River, and still preserves some of its medieval fortifications, which afford panoramic views of the Marne Valley, the Langres plateau and the Vosges. The Cathedral St-Mammes, built in the Burgundian Romanesque style for the ancient diocese that was referred to as Lingonae ("of the Lingones") and rivalled Dijon. Three of its early bishops were martyred by the invasion of the Vandals, about 407. Titus Flavius Domitianus (24 October 51 – 18 September 96), commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman emperor of the gens Flavia. ... Categories: France geography stubs | Communes of Haute-Marne ...

In Roman Britain, two cohorts of Lingones, probably subscripted from among the Lingones who had remained in the area of Langres and Dijon are attested in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, from dedicatory inscriptions and stamped tiles.

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• Lingones in the Batavian revolt
• Second Cohort of Lingones in Roman Britain

See also: Lugii The green area is the Przeworsk culture identified with the Lugians. ...