- The
Sicambri or
Sugambri were a
Germanic people who
lived in the area
between the Rhine, Lippe, and
Wupper rivers, in what is now Germany, near the border...
-
where the 5th
Legion under Marcus Lollius was
defeated by the
tribes Sicambri, Usipetes, and Tencteri.
Roman Emperor Augustus responded by
rapidly developing...
- In 12 BC, he led a
successful campaign into Germania,
subjugating the
Sicambri.
Later that year he led a
naval expedition against Germanic tribes along...
- of
classical history. In the case of the Franks,
these people were the
Sicambri and the Trojans. An
anonymous work of 727
called Liber Historiae Francorum...
- back over the
Rhine where they were
helped by the
Sicambri. Later,
Caesar himself encouraged the
Sicambri to
cross the
Rhine into the
territory of the Eburones...
- and met
little resistance,
except from the
Sicambri.
Tiberius came
close to
exterminating the
Sicambri, and had
those who
survived transported to the...
- Lippe,
probably absorbing the
remnants of the
previous inhabitants, the
Sicambri and Marsi. The Ruhr was now
their southern boundary separating them from...
- a
battle in 16 BC, when the
consul Marcus Lollius was
defeated by the
Sicambri,
Usipetes and Tencteri,
Germanic tribes who had
crossed the Rhine. This...
-
symbol in
their insignia,
which among them
represented the God of war; the
Sicambri a head of an ox, which,
according to Beneton,
meant the god Apis, an Egyptian...
- and the
Sicambri. The
Lupia River, now Lippe,
flows westwards through the Ruhr
Valley in
North Rhine-Westphalia.
Drusus defeated the
Sicambri, and some...
