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Aedui, Haedui or Hedui (Gr. Aidouoi), are Gallic

Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
people of Gallia Lugdunensis

Gallia Lugdunensis

Gallia Lugdunensis was a Roman province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul....
, who inhabited the country between the Arar (Saone

Saône

The Sa?ne is a river of eastern France. It is a right tributary of the River Rh?ne River . Rising at Viom?nil in the Vosges department, it joins the Rh?ne in Lyon ....
) and Liger (Loire

Loire

Loire is an departments of France in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches....
), in today's France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

The statement in Strabo

Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
(ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis (Doubs

Doubs

Doubs is a departments of France in eastern France named after the Doubs River. Its French pronunciation is /du/ ....
) is incorrect.

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Aedui, Haedui or Hedui (Gr. Aidouoi), are Gallic

Gallic

Gallia Lugdunensis

Saône

The Sa?ne is a river of eastern France. It is a right tributary of the River Rh?ne River . Rising at Viom?nil in the Vosges department, it joins the Rh?ne in Lyon ....
) and Liger (Loire

Loire

Loire is an departments of France in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches....
), in today's France

France

Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
(ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis (Doubs

Doubs

Doubs is a departments of France in eastern France named after the Doubs River. Its French pronunciation is /du/ ....
) is incorrect. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire

Saône-et-Loire

Sa?ne-et-Loire is a France departments of France, named after the Sa?ne River and the Loire River rivers between which it lies....
, Côte-d'Or

Côte-d'Or

C?te-d'Or is a departments of France in the eastern part of France....
and Nièvre

Nièvre

Ni?vre is a departments of France in the center of France named after the Ni?vre ....
. According to Livy

Livy

Titus Livius , known as Livy in English language, was a Ancient Rome historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time....
(v. 34), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus

Bellovesus

Bellovesus was a legendary Gallic king. He lived around 600 BCE and is remembered for invading northern Italy with his people during the reign of Tarquinius Priscus, although archeology would associate Gallic expansion into Italy to around 500 BCE....
into Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
in the 6th century BC.

Before Caesar's

Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
time they had attached themselves to the Romans

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people. When the Sequani

Sequani

Sequani, in ancient geography, were a Gallic people who occupied the upper basin of the Arar , their territory corresponding to Franche-Comt? and part of Burgundy ....
, their neighbours on the other side of the Arar

Arar

Arar is the capital of Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah province in Saudi Arabia. It has a population of 145,237 .Arar is located to the north-east of Saudi Arabia on the Iraqi border....
, with whom they were continually quarrelling, invaded their country and subjugated them with the assistance of a Germanic chieftain named Ariovistus

Ariovistus

Ariovistus was a leader of the Suebi and other allied Germanic peoples in the second quarter of the 1st century BC. He and his followers took part in a war in Gaul, assisting the Arverni and Sequani to defeat their rivals the Aedui, and settled in large numbers in conquered Gallic territory in the Alsace region, but were defeated in the Battl...
, the Aedui sent Diviciacus

Diviciacus (Aedui)

Diviciacus or Divitiacus of the Aedui is Latinisation name of the only druid from Antiquity whose existence is historically attested. He should not be confused with the king of the Suessiones, also called Diviciacus ; however coins issued by the latter confirm the spelling , de?????a???....
, the druid, to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
to appeal to the senate

Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
for help, but his mission was unsuccessful.

On his arrival in Gaul

Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
(58 BC), Caesar restored their independence. In spite of this, the Aedui joined the Gallic coalition against Caesar (B. G. vii. 42), but after the surrender of Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix , born around 82 BC, died 46 BC, was tribal chief of the Arverni, originating from the Arvernian city of Gergovia and known as the man who led the Gauls in their ultimately unsuccessful war against Roman republic rule under Julius Caesar....
at Alesia

Alesia

Alesia may refer to:*the city of Alesia in Gaul*the Battle of Alesia*the Al?sia in the Paris M?tro*rue d'Al?sia, Paris*le Carrefour Al?sia, popular name for Place H?l?ne et Victor Basch, Paris...
were glad to return to their allegiance. Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte

Bibracte

Bibracte, a Gaulish oppidum or fortified city, was the capital of the Aedui and one of the most important hillforts in Gaul. It was situated near modern Autun in Bourgogne, France....
on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum (modern Autun

Autun

Autun is a Communes of France in the Sa?ne-et-Loire Departments of France in Bourgogne in eastern France.The history of Autun dates back to Ancient Rome times....
).

In 21, during the reign of Tiberius

Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
, they revolted under Julius Sacrovir, and seized Augustodunum, but were soon put down by Gaius Silius (Tacitus Ann.
Annals (Tacitus)

The Annals is a history book by Tacitus covering the reign of the four Roman Emperors succeeding to Caesar Augustus. The parts of the work that survived from antiquity cover the reigns of Tiberius and Nero....
iii. 43-46). The Aedui were the first of the Gauls to receive from the emperor Claudius

Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
the distinction of jus honorum. The oration of Eumenius

Eumenius

Eumenius , was one of the Ancient Rome panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini ....
, in which he pleaded for the restoration of the schools of his native place Augustodunum, shows that the district was neglected. The chief magistrate of the Aedui in Caesar's time was called Vergobretus (according to Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a Germany classics, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century....
, "judgment-worker"), who was elected annually, possessed powers of life and death, but was forbidden to go beyond the frontier. Certain clientes, or small communities, were also dependent upon the Aedui.

The Aedui adopted many of the governmental practices of the Romans, such as the electing of magistrates and other officials.

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