Amiens

Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. It is the préfecture (capital city) of the Somme département. Population: 120,000.

History

The Paleolithic culture named Acheulean was named for its first identified site, in Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens. Amiens, the Roman Samarobriva, was the central settlement of the Ambiani, one of the principal tribes of Gaul, who were issuing coinage, probably from Amiens, in the 1st century BC. By tradition, it was at the gates of Amiens that Saint Martin of Tours, at the time still a Roman soldier, divided his cloak with a naked beggar.

Related Topics:
Acheulean - Principal tribes of Gaul - Martin of Tours

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Amiens was later the capital of Picardy.

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