Editing Nervii (section)

==Territory==
[[File:Pagi of the Nervians.png|thumb|300px|The three main early medieval ''pagi'' in the civitas of the Nervians, based on Deru's listing. Pagi: Orange = Cambrésis; Yellow = Hainaut ; Purple = Brabant. The shaded areas are modern Belgian provinces or French départements.]]
According to Xavier Deru, the core region of the Nervii was equivalent to the medieval ''pagus'' of [[Hainaut Province|Hainaut]], the region of the [[Haine]] river, the upper [[Sambre]], and [[Helpe Majeure|greater]] and [[Helpe Mineure|lesser]] Helpe rivers. To the north of the Haine, it also included what would become the medieval ''pagus'' of Brabant, making its northwestern border on the [[Scheldt]] (French ''Escaut'', Dutch ''Schelde'') river.<ref>{{citation|last=Deru|first=Xavier|title=Cadres géographiques du territoire des Nerviens|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-du-nord-2009-5-page-179.htm|journal=Revue du Nord|volume=5|issue=383|pages=179–201|year=2009|doi=10.3917/rdn.383.0179|issn=0035-2624|doi-access=free}}</ref> A large population occupied the southern territories, near the river [[Sambre]] with the biggest being at [[Avesnelles]], near [[Avesnes-sur-Helpe]].

An [[oppidum]] found near [[Asse]] may have belonged to them but it was isolated and near to the territory of the [[Menapii]]. In the south the Nervians stretched no further than the forests of [[Arrouaise]] and [[Thiérache]]<ref name=wightman30>{{Citation|title=Gallia Belgica|last=Wightman|first =Edith Mary|year=1985|publisher= University of California Press|isbn=9780520052970| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEyS54uSj88C}} page 30.</ref> South of them were the [[Viromandui]], south of Cambrai, and the [[Remi]]. Deru proposes that the region or ''pagus'' of [[Cambrai]] in the southwest was relatively undeveloped until Roman times.<ref>{{citation|title=L'occupation du Cambrésis à la période romaine. Résultats des campagnes de prospections systématiques
|first=Xavier |last=Deru| journal=Revue du Nord |year=2012 |volume=5 |issue= 398| pages=121–141|doi=10.3917/rdn.398.0121 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
  
To the east, based upon medieval boundaries it is likely that the Nervii's territories stretched to the [[Dyle (river)|Dyle]] and the [[Eau d'Heure]]. Some of this territory especially in the north may have been added to the district during Roman times according to Deru. The ''civitas'' of the Nervii did not include [[Leuven|Louvain]] or [[Namur]].

Caesar also mentions smaller tribes who were expected to contribute troops to Nervian forces; Levaci, Pleumoxii, Geidumni, Ceutrones, and Grudii. None of these can be convincingly located.

In the Middle Ages, Hainaut was sometimes still referred to as the county of the Nervians (''comitatus nerviensis'') in medieval Latin, and when this came to be politically united with mainly Dutch speaking Brabant again, the counties were still distinguished in the official Latin titles (''comitatus Nerviensis [[wikt:atque|atque]] Bracbatensis'').

Today, Hainaut is divided between France and Belgium. To its north, parts of the modern Belgian provinces of [[Antwerp (province)|Antwerp]], [[East Flanders]], [[Flemish Brabant]] and French-speaking [[Walloon Brabant]] include the rest of the old Nervian territory.