Vermand is a common French, located in the department of the Aisne and the area Picardy.

The inhabitants of Vermand are the Vermandois .

The Vermandois is the country whose Vermand was it city-center.

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At the time of the Roman conquest, the Gallic ones of the area named the VIRO-MANDUI whose direction is not established with certainty: “man-small”, for the ones, “man-horses” (centaurs), for the others. They belonged to the group of the Belgae , the Belgian resulting from a Celtic wave of immigration of the 3rd century before our era and mainly installed in the North of Gaulle. César announces the combativeness and the bravery of the Belgians. He faces the coalition of the Nerviens (Bavay - Hainaut), Atrebates and Viromands close to the river Sabis (discussed localization), during a difficult battle where the Romans ended up carrying it.

Vermand was to have a Gallic name which remains been unaware of. The Oppidum which is there is the only one which is known for the Viromanduens. It seems probable that he constituted their principal fortified town. In any case, it was probably the capital of these people in the years which followed the conquest, to the foundation of a new chief town with Saint-Quentin: Augusta Viromanduorum .

This " déchéance" policy did not prevent the development of a prosperous Gallo-Roman city, center of an important production of pottery. A great religious unit including/understanding several temples was revealed by the air prospections with Marteville.

At the Lower Empire, the end of or the beginning of the 4th century, it seems that Vermand is become again the capital of the Viromandui , because of the ruin of Augusta . It is what explains its name which comes from Viromandis , which means " at the Viromandui " (formed on the name of the people, with the plural ablative, direction Locatif, case of the Indo-European language which still survived in Latin). At that time, much chief towns changed name: they took that of the people of which they were the principal city. It is thus probable that the first bishops of Vermandois resided in this city before the transfer of the episcopal see to Noyon to the 6th century. During the time mérovingienne, the fate of Vermand is not established with certainty: did remain the capital of Vermandois, or Saint-Quentin, which profited from the pilgrimage on the tomb of its famous martyr, she had already supplanted it? At the 9th century, the situation lights: the counts de Vermandois resident with Saint-Quentin and Vermand lost any importance.

With the Middle Ages, it is nothing any more but one village. At the 9th century a religious community is installed by the bishop of Boundary-line, which becomes at the 12th century an abbey of Prémontrés, removed with the Revolution.

The seigniory was divided mainly between the counts de Vermandois, then the king of France, which yielded it in 1291 the chapter of Saint-Quentin and to the bishops of Boundary-line.

Formerly, pilgrimage with saint Blaise for the evils of throat.

The common one was entirely destroyed during the First World War

Inheritance

• Double-side Workshop of size of S Acheuléen S.
• Passage of the Roman Way known as Fitted Brunehaut;
• Oppidum of the Viromanduens: enclosure of barred the spur type, protected by a ground lifting;
• Roman City, workshops of potters;
• pertaining to worship District of Marteville: several temples and many buildings;
• Several cemeteries of the Lower Empire (more than 800 excavated tombs), with rich person burial of a chief of Germanic auxiliaries (fine).

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