Imported materials found during excavations indicate that the oppidum played an important role in trade between Italy and central Gaul. |
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The 80 ha. site is best viewed from the well-preserved boundary dykes, forming the eastern side of the oppidum beside Cutham Lane. |
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A major Celtic oppidum identified as the ancient site of Bibracte near Bourges in central France. |
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An oppidum found near Asse may have belonged to them but it was isolated and near to the territory of the Menapii. |
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To that end, they had gradually built up an oppidum, or fortified town, at Vesontio. |
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Gates of the Iron Age oppidum of San Cibrao de Las, one of the largest castros of Galicia. |
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The second, or central, column crossed the Ebro at the oppidum of Mora and from there information is fairly sparse. |
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These students became known as Oppidans, from the Latin word oppidum, meaning town. |
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At Cirencester, for example, the Romans made use of the army base that originally oversaw the nearby tribal oppidum to create a civitas. |
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After the Helvetian defeat at Bibracte, the influential Aedui tribe allowed the Boii survivors to settle on their territory, where they occupied the oppidum of Gorgobina. |
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The Aedui were granted their wish that the Boii who had accompanied the Helvetii would settle on their own territory as allies in the oppidum Gorgobina. |
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The oppidum of the Aduatuci were seized by the Romans and after the fall of the city with 4,000 dead the entire surviving population of 53,000 were sold as slaves. |
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By 69, when the Batavians, the original inhabitants of the Rhine and Maas delta, revolted, a village called Oppidum Batavorum had formed near the Roman camp. |
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