The Eburones played a major role in Julius Caesar's account of his "Gallic Wars", as the most important tribe within the "Germani cisrhenani" group of tribes — "Germani" living west of the Rhine amongst the Belgae. Caesar claimed that the name of the Eburones was wiped out after their failed revolt against his forces during the Gallic Wars, and that the tribe was largely exterminated. Whether any significant part of the population lived on in the area as Tungri, the tribal name found here later, is uncertain but considered likely.