Suessiones

The Suessiones (or perhaps Suessones) were a Belgic people of north-eastern Gaul in the 1st century BC, inhabiting the region between the Oise and the Marne, based around the present-day city of Soissons. They were conquered in 57 BC by Julius Caesar.

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Caesar recounts in his Gallic Wars that in 57 BC the Suessiones were ruled by Galba, and that in living memory of that time their king Divitiacus (or Diviciacus) had exercised sovereignty over most of the Belgae and even parts of Britain.

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The town mentioned by Caesar as their capital, Noviodunum ("New Town"), is probably the modern Soissons.

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Belgic: REDIRECT Belgae...

Gaul: Gaul (from Latin Gallia, c.f. Greek Galatia) is the region of Western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river....

1st century BC: (2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century - other centuries)...