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The Aduatuci or Atuatuci were, according to Caesar, a Germanic tribe who had been allowed to settle amongst the Germanic tribes living in east Belgium. They descended from the Cimbri and Teutones, who were tribes thought to have originated in the area of Denmark.〔''Gallic War'' (2.29 ).〕 Much later, the Aduatuci sent troops to assist their Belgic neighbours, especially the Nervii, in the Battle of the Sabis, but were too late. They were later defeated by the Romans after withdrawing to a fortified city. After their defeat by Caesar they disappear from the written record, but their survivors possibly contributed to the later tribal grouping known as the Tungri in Roman imperial times. Before the Roman attack in 57 BC the oppidum of the Aduatuci (possible modern day Namur in Belgium or near the city of Thuin) were home to 57,000 including refugees fleeing the Romans. The oppidum of the Aduatuci were seized by the Romans and after the fall of the city with 4,000 dead the entire surviving population of 53,000 were sold as slaves.〔http://books.google.dk/books?id=lIJiKnZrJAsC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=caesars+slave++53,000+Aduatuci&source=bl&ots=BatsFTxCY1&sig=geOcZd1FdJzlUukWUJB5CeLNlao&hl=da&sa=X&ei=3YgoU_gwycXsBrfvgaAC&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=caesars%20slave%20%2053%2C000%20Aduatuci&f=false〕〔http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/commentaries/holmes/holmesgi.html〕 ==Background== The Cimbri, the Teutones, and Ambrones were engaged by, and then defeated, several Roman armies at the battle of Noreia (113 BCE) and at Arausio (105 BCE), where the Romans are said to have lost more than 80,000 men.〔Valerius Antias (1st century BC). ''Manubiae'' (quoted by Livy, (''Periochae'', book 67 )).〕 After the Marian reforms of the legions, the Teutones and Ambrones were finally defeated by the Romans at Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC. The Cimbri were defeated by the Romans in northeast Italy in 101 BC. The Aduatuci were said to be the remnants of a group of the Cimbri who stayed in northern Gaul after defeating a previous Roman army under Marcus Junius Silanus in Gaul in 109 BC, before the Germanic tribes moved south towards Italy.〔 From the account of Caesar, the exact position of the Aduatuci is not clear, but they were apparently neighbours of both the Nervii and the Eburones. Edith Wightman states that they "are generally supposed to have occupied the middle Meuse valley, perhaps rightly, although the reasoning is suspect".〔 Concerning their fort, Wightman writes From the description, it was a promontory fort or ''epéron barré'', but the lack of any reference to a major river argues against the citadel at Namur, and the Mont Falhize near Huy, both of them washed by the Meuse. Reoccupation of the earlier fort of Hastedon (St. Servais, just north of Namur) is a possibility. Other candidates are not lacking, but they lie mostly in the Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse area, which probably belonged to the Nervii. (Mont Falise is today in Huy, on the north side of the Meuse, and to the east of the main town.) In 2012 a group of historians and archeologists came to the conclusion that the oppidium of the Aduatuci was placed south of the Hainaut city of Thuin. The following arguments for this identification were listed.〔(Oppidum van de Aduatuci ligt in Thuin (Henegouwen) ) 〕 #The discovery of the remains of a fortified Iron Age settlement, enclosing 13 hectares. #The fortification was felt to match the description given by Caesar. #Concentrations of Roman lead projectiles show that the fort was attacked by Roman forces. #Three troves of gold had been buried near the fortification, all dating to early years of the decade 50 BCE. #The place lies in the correct general area. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aduatuci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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