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The 'Ambiani' were a Belgic people, who were said to be able to muster 10,000 armed men, in 57 BCE, the year of Julius Caesar's Belgic campaign. They submitted to Caesar. (''B. G.'' ii. 4, 15.) Their country lay in the valley of the Samara (modern Somme); and their chief town ''Samarobriva'', afterwards called ''Ambiani'' and ''Civitas Ambianensium'', is supposed to be represented by Amiens. They were among the people who took part in the great insurrection against the Romans, which is described in the seventh book of Caesar's ''Gallic War''. (''B. G.'' vii. 75.)

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