Talk:Viromandui

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Very Cool. Due to clerical errors, I had to review a boatload of these, and this is one of the better ones. Double kudos on the picture, I think it's really great. Just a few things I might tinker with: 1) The first line has a tiny typo, I would have corrected it myself, but there didn't seem to be a little edit button right there. It just needs a capitol letter, I believe right after the word 'Gaul'. 2) I love the hyperlinks throughout, those are a big help (and something my article definitely needs). I might add one line or so of explanation to (for example) Caesars 'De Bello Gallico'. The link helps, and sitting in Roman History, we know that J.C. was a general who fought Gauls, but if you were completely ignorant to subject, it might help to have a line like, "a chronicle of Julius Caesar's early campaigns against the Gauls" or some-such. 3) Neat use of quotes in the culture section. There are a lot of them, but I think it works well enough.  I think it's there that you say the tribe led a 'Spartan' existence.  All I know about Spartans I learned in the movie 300.  So if that's an accurate picture, great, it paints a vivid picture. Overall, pretty sweet article, it won't make more than a tiny amount of polish to make it shine for Friday.  Congrats.  --Matt Vickery

Overall, this is a good article. It is pretty lengthy but contains insightful information. There are just a couple of changes I would make. First of all when you first introduce Viromandui and then you talk about it under Territory and cities, it seems as if there is a bit of repition. I know its history so it's hard to say it any other way, but maybe if you could change around the words a little just to make it seem like we're not reading the same thing over again right away. Also, under Battle of Sabis I think you have a slight grammatical error or may have just missed a couple words when you say "Alongside the Nervii and the Atrebates they fought against Julius Caesarin The Battle of Sabis around 57 BC, named for the river that split the battlefield." I think you may have meant to add the word "in" between Cesarin and The. Also, under Culture, although I like your use of quotes I think you should maybe explain them or analyze them yourself a bit more. It was hard to read and get through, and then I wasn't even quite sure I understood what I had just read..so maybe just some clarification would help? Other than that I really like this article, great work! - Ambika Aggarwal

Tactics against Caesar's Romans: where on Earth did all this "too tough for cavalry" thing come from? Caesar says no such thing and even describes the Nervii and Viromandui deploying small cavalry units (Book 2 XVIII) Paul S (talk) 14:46, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

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The bishop Sophronius of Veromandua (Sofronius episcopus ecclesiae Veromandensis) was present at the Council of Orleans in 511, along with several other bishops from northern Gaul (Mansi, Concilia, viii. 357). He was surely a bishop of the Viromandui.

Djwilms (talk) 06:54, 15 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Further to my last, the Viromandui were later included in a diocese that covered both Tournai (Tornacum) and Noyon (Noviomagus Viromanduorum). The sixth-century diocese of Veromandua was almost certainly centred on Noyon.


 * Djwilms (talk) 09:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)