Stater of the Remi, gold, 5.99g.
- This article is about a tribe, for alternate meanings see Remi (disambiguation).
The Remi were a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica) in the 1st century BC. They occupied the northern Champagne plain, on the southern fringes of the Forest of Ardennes, between the rivers Mosa (Meuse) and Matrona (Marne), and along the river valleys of the Aisne and its tributaries the Aire and the Vesle.
Their tribal capital was at Durocortum (Reims, France) the second largest oppidum of Gaul,[citation needed] on the Vesle. Allied with the Germanic tribes of the east, they repeatedly engaged in warfare against the Parisii and the Senones.[citation needed] They were renowned for their horses and cavalry.[citation needed] The Remi, under Iccius and Andecombogius, allied themselves with Julius Caesar and remained loyal to him throughout the entire Gallic Wars, becoming the most pro-Roman of all the peoples of Belgic Gaul.
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civitates at the time of Julius Caesar
A founding myth preserved or invented by Flodoard of Reims (d. 966) makes Remus, brother of Romulus, the eponymous founder of the Remi, having escaped their fraternal rivalry instead of dying in Latium.
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