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SEQUANI , in See also:

ancient See also:geography, a See also:Celtic See also:people who occupied the upper See also:basin of the Arar (See also:Saone), their territory corresponding to Franche-See also:Comte and See also:part of See also:Burgundy. Before the arrival of See also:Caesar in See also:Gaul, the .Sequani had taken the part of the See also:Arverni against their rivals the See also:Aedui and hired the Germans under Ariovistus to See also:cross the See also:Rhine and help them (71 B.C.). But although his assistance enabled them to defeat the Aedui, the Sequani were worse off than before, for Ariovistus deprived them of a third of their territory and threatened to take another third. The Sequani then appealed to Caesar, who drove back the Germans (58), but at the same See also:time obliged the Sequani to surrender all that they had gained from the Aedui. This so exasperated the Sequani that they joined in the revolt of Vercingetorix (52) and shared in the defeat at See also:Alesia. Under See also:Augustus, the See also:district known as Sequania formed part of Belgica. After the See also:death of See also:Vitellius, the inhabitants refused to join the Gallic revolt against See also:Rome instigated by See also:Julius See also:Civilis and Julius Sabinus, and drove back Sabinus, who had invaded their territory. A triumphal See also:arch at Vesontio (See also:Besancon), which in return for this service was made a See also:colony, possibly commemorates this victory. See also:Diocletian added Helvetia, and part of Germania See also:Superior to Sequania, which was now called Provincia See also:maxima Sequanorum, Vesontio receiving the See also:title of See also:Metropolis civitas Vesontiensium. Fifty years later Gaul was overrun by the barbarians, and Vesontio sacked (355)• Under See also:Julian it recovered some of its importance as a fortified See also:town, and was able to withstand the attacks of the See also:Vandals. Later, when Rome was no longer able to afford See also:protection to the inhabitants of Gaul, the Sequani became merged in the newly formed See also:kingdom of Burgundy. See T.

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Holmes, Caesar's See also:Conquest of Gaul (1899), p. 483; A. Holder, Altceltischer Sprachschatz, ii. (1904); See also:Mommsen, Hilt. of Rome (Eng. trans.), bk. v. ch. vii.; Dunod de Charnage, His'. See also:des Sequanois (1735) ; J. D. Schopflin, See also:Alsatia illustrata, i. (1751; See also:French trans. by L. W.

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