Eburones

The Eburones were the largest of the so-called Germani cisrhenani peoples during the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar in the years 58-50 BC, or in other words one of the several Germanic peoples dwelling west of the Rhine, in part of Gallia Belgica. The Eburones, along with some of the neighbouring peoples, resisted the Roman invasion led by Caesar. However, despite some notable success they eventually lost, and they do not appear in historical records after this, at least under the same name. Scholars debate the exact extent of their country, but they lived in a region west of the Rhine, north of the Ardennes and Eifel forests, and near the Meuse. In modern terms they therefore lived somewhere in the area corresponding to the southeastern Netherlands, northeastern Belgium and the northern part of the German Rhineland. Caesar claimed that the name of the Eburones was wiped out after their failed revolt against his forces during the Gallic Wars, and that the tribe was largely annihilated. It is however considered likely that a under Roman rule a significant part of the population lived on under new tribal names such as the Tungri, Sunuci and Batavi, in populations that probably included significant numbers of new settlers from elsewhere.