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Significant387 BCE

Battle of the Allia

Confluence of the Allia brook and Tiber, north of Rome, Italy

Estimated casualties

0single estimate · no range published

Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate. Accounts written centuries later; Roman tradition dates the battle 390 BC, modern historians often favour 387 BC.

SOURCEunrecorded

A Gallic army of the Senones under Brennus routed the Roman army at the Allia brook and went on to sack Rome itself. The day (dies Alliensis) was thereafter regarded as ill-omened in the Roman calendar.

Belligerents2

  • Roman Republic
  • Senones (Gauls)

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of the Allia
  2. World History Encyclopedia
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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42.07°N · 12.55°E · 387 BCEWARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / BATTLE-OF-THE-ALLIA

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