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13 unusual facts about Senones


Association of Senones Country communes

Created in 1998, the association has its administrative offices at Senones .

Battle of Agendicum

After Julius Caesar captured Avaricum, he split his forces in half, and sent 4 legions under the command of Labienus north into the lands of the Senones and Parisii.

Early Roman army

At this juncture, Rome was crushed by an invasion of central Italy by the Senones Gallic tribe.

House of Salm

It is above all known for the experiences of the branch which came to be located in the Vosges Mountains and over time came to rule over a principality whose capital was Badonviller then Senones.

Kintzheim

The area was increased in 1299 by a farm at Kintzheim which the Abbey of Senones gave them in fief.

Leges regiae

It must be remembered that the fire caused by the Galli Senones in 390 or 387 BC was another reason of their disappearance.

Lucterius

Lucterius remained at large after the surrender of Vercingetorix at Alesia and continued the resistance the following year in an alliance with Drappes, a Senonian under whom motley contingents of Gallic rebels had gathered.

Matthieu Petit-Didier

He was elected Abbot of Senones in 1715, but got possession only after a lengthy dispute with another claimant.

Matthieu Petit-Didier (born at Saint-Nicolas-du-Port in Lorraine, 18 December 1659; died at Senones, 1728) was a French Benedictine theologian and ecclesiastical historian.

Senigallia

Senigallia, spread out along the coast at the mouth of the river Misa, was founded in the 4th century BC by the Gallic tribe of the Senones and became the first Roman colony on the Adriatic shore.

Senones Abbey

Senones Abbey (Abbaye de Senones) was a Benedictine abbey located in the valley of the Rabodeau, in the present village of Senones in Lorraine, France.

Senones, Vosges

Until 1793, Senones was the capital of the Principality of Salm-Salm.

Via Aemilia

This area was, before the Roman conquest, the territory of the Gallic tribes Boii (who gave their name to the city of Bologna) and Senones.


Rambervillers

Rambervillers was the creation in the ninth century of a man called Rambert, who was the Count of Mortagne, or the Abbot of Senones: sources differ.

Remi

Allied with the Germanic tribes of the east, they repeatedly engaged in warfare against the Parisii and the Senones.