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oskilll In reply to MoonTheMoon [2017-04-02 04:00:20 +0000 UTC]

oh boi

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MoonTheMoon In reply to oskilll [2017-04-02 04:45:42 +0000 UTC]

boii

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TheGrandOleRuski In reply to MoonTheMoon [2017-10-13 18:41:37 +0000 UTC]

*from wikipedia*

The Boii were a Gallic tribe from the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy), Pannonia (Hungary and it's western neighbors), parts of Bavaria, in and around Bohemia (after whom the region is named in most languages; comprising of the Czech Republic) and Gallia Narbonensis. In addition the archeological evidence indicates that in the 2nd century BC Celts expanded from Bohemia through the Klodzko Valley into Silesia, now part of Poland and the Czech Republic.

They first appear in history in connection with the Gallic invasion of north Italy, 390 BC, when they made the Etruscan city of Felsina their new capital, Bononia (Bologna). After a series of wars they were decisively beaten by the Romans in a Battle of Mutina (193 BCE) and their territory became part of the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul. According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbors,

             "[T]he Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all-and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbors as a pasture-ground for sheep.

Around 60 BC, a group of Boii joined the Helvetii's ill fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte. Caesar settled the remnants of that group in Gorgobina, from where they sent two thousand to Vercingetorix's aid at the battle of Alesia six years later. The eastern Boii on the Danube were incorporated into the Roman Empire in 8 AD.

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