Battle of the Lupia River
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The Battle of the Lupia River - the Lippe River
flows westwards through the Ruhr Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia. The battle was fought in 11 BC
between a Roman force led by Nero Claudius Drusus
and the Sicambri
. Drusus defeated the Sicambri, and some of the defeated were moved to west of the Rhine River.
Lippe River
The Lippe is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Rhine and in length.The source is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bad Lippspringe close to the city of Paderborn. It runs westward through Paderborn, Lippstadt and then along the northern edge...
flows westwards through the Ruhr Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia. The battle was fought in 11 BC
11 BC
Year 11 BC was either a common year starting on Monday or Tuesday or a leap year starting on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday of the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar...
between a Roman force led by Nero Claudius Drusus
Nero Claudius Drusus
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus , born Decimus Claudius Drusus also called Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a fully patrician Claudian on his father's side but his maternal grandmother was from a plebeian family...
and the Sicambri
Sicambri
The Sicambri were a Germanic people living on the right bank of the Rhine river, near where it passes out of Germany and enters what is now called the Netherlands at the turn of the first millennium....
. Drusus defeated the Sicambri, and some of the defeated were moved to west of the Rhine River.