The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler

Volume 4, the Medieval World.

Episode 48, The Battle of Kressi. Oh, yeah. The modern town of Cressi-en-Pont-Y

The modern town of Cressi-en-Pontieu lies just a few miles north of the Lower Somme Valley

in the modern French region of Ode-France, in the north of France.

Historically it was in the north of France. Historically it was in the region of Picard

which is recognized as an area where the Picard language, a romance language closely

related to modern French was spoken.

And this area of lingual influence also crossed the modern Belgian border,

which also means that it is very closely related to the Wahlung language and culture too.

Little is known historically about this area of Europe up until Roman times,

where this could have been close to or on the border between Celtic and Germanic

cultures. When Julius Caesar discovered the region, he would be able to distinguish it from the bulk of those peoples of modern

Central France to whom he would refer to as Gauls. He would identify them as the Belge, who would have cultural links to some of the peoples of the British

holes and be distinct from the Germanic tribes further to the north and the east.

Caesar would recognize the Belgee as brave warriors who were much more remote and

detached from modern society than most of the Gauls further south and there is an argument

that the Belge or certainly some of the people from this area had a language distinct

from Celtic and Germanic languages before the influence of Celtic

cultures spread into the area. From the period when the Romans took control of the

area it would be referred to as Galia, Beljica, and it would find its culture

gradually Romanized, but this would take many generations and initially some protection

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