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===Antiquity=== [[File:Peutinger Casaromago.jpg|thumb|left|An extract from the Peutinger table showing Camaraco (Cambrai) northeast of Sammarobriva (present-day [[Amiens]])]] Little is known with certainty of the beginnings of Cambrai. ''Camaracum'' or ''Camaraco'', as it was known to the Romans, is mentioned for the first time on the [[Tabula Peutingeriana|Peutinger table]] in the middle of the 4th century. It became the main town of the Roman province of the [[Nervii]], whose first Roman capital had been at ''Bagacum'', present-day [[Bavay]].{{cn|date=February 2024}} In the middle of the 4th-century, [[Franks|Frankish]] raids from the north threatened Bavay and led the Romans to build forts along the Cologne to Bavay to Cambrai road, and thence to Boulogne. Cambrai thus occupied an important strategic position.{{cn|date=August 2024}} In 430, the [[Salian Franks]] under the command of [[Clodio]] the Long-Haired took the town. In 509, [[Clovis I|Clovis]] undertook to unify the Frankish kingdoms<ref group=b>p.12-14</ref> by getting rid of his relatives.
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