WebLa guerre des Gaules est une série de campagnes militaires menées par le proconsul romain Jules César contre plusieurs tribus gauloises.La guerre de Rome contre ces tribus dure de 58 à 51-50 av. J.-C., et aboutit à la décisive bataille d'Alésia en 52 av. J.-C., qui mène à l'expansion de la République romaine sur l'ensemble de la Gaule.. La division …

WebNanterre (/ n ɒ̃ ˈ t ɛər /, French: ()) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris.It is located some 11 km (6.8 mi) northwest of the centre of Paris.In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807.. The eastern part of Nanterre, bordering the communes of Courbevoie and Puteaux, contains a small part of the La Défense business …

WebThe Arverni (Gaulish: *Aruernoi) were a Gallic people dwelling in the modern Auvergne region during the Iron Age and the Roman period.They were one of the most powerful tribes of ancient Gaul, contesting primacy over the region with the neighbouring Aedui.. They are mentioned in 207 BC as treating with Carthaginian commandant Hasdrubal …

WebVercingétorix, né aux environs de 82 av. J.-C. [note 1] sur le territoire arverne, l'actuelle Auvergne [note 2], et mort à l'automne -46 dans une prison de Rome, est le chef et le roi du peuple celte des Arvernes [1].Il fédère une partie des peuples gaulois dans le cadre d'une révolte contre les forces romaines au cours de la dernière phase de la guerre des Gaules …

WebThe Louis XIII Wall, also known as the "yellow ditches wall", was designed by Jacques Lemercier and built between 1633 and 1636. It enlarged the Wall of Charles V over the western part of the right bank (now the First and Second Arrondissements). From 1670 onward, Louis XIV believed that Paris had been made a secure city as a result of his …

WebDuring the Gallic Wars, Caesar's armies set fire to Lutetia "a town of the Parisii, situated on an island on the river Seine." While only a garrison at best on the Île de la Cité during some periods after 1st and 2nd century, was renamed Paris in 360 AD: Zürich Gaul Switzerland: c. 50 BC [citation needed]

WebDe Menapii (Ndl.:Menapiërs, soms Menapen) was een Keltische volksstam die ten tijde van de Gallische Oorlog (58-50 v.Chr.) in de Schelde-, Maas- en Rijndelta in het noordwesten van Belgisch Gallië woonde; ook ten noorden van de Rijn hadden zich Menapii gevestigd en hun zuidelijk grensgebied moet ergens in de huidige Vlaamse polders hebben gelegen. …

WebGaulish was an ancient Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine). In a …

WebName. They are mentioned as Venetos by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Livy (late 1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), Ouénetoi (Οὐένετοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), Veneti on the Tabula Peutingeriana (5th c. AD), and as Benetis in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD).. The ethnonym Venetī is a latinized form of Gaulish Uenetoi, meaning 'the …

WebStatua equestre di Vercingetorige, opera di Bartholdi, in Place de Jaude, a Clermont-Ferrand.L'iscrizione recita: J'ai pris les armes pour la liberté de tous (Ho preso le armi per la libertà di tutti) Vercingetorige (latino: Vercingetorix, traducibile dal gallico come "Il grandissimo re dei guerrieri"; 82 a.C. – Roma, 26 settembre 46 a.C.) è stato un principe e …

WebAlesia is best known for being the site of the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC that marked the defeat of the Gauls under Vercingetorix by the Romans under Julius Caesar.Caesar described the battle in detail in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Book VII, 69–90). The battle's outcome determined the fate of all of Gaul: in winning the battle, the Romans won …

WebThe Volcae (Latin pronunciation: [ˈwɔɫkae̯]) were a Gallic tribal confederation constituted before the raid of combined Gauls that invaded Macedonia c. 270 BC and fought the assembled Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae in 279 BC.Tribes known by the name Volcae were found simultaneously in southern Gaul, Moravia, the Ebro valley of the …

WebThe Roman navy (Latin: Classis, lit. 'fleet') comprised the naval forces of the ancient Roman state.The navy was instrumental in the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean Basin, but it never enjoyed the prestige of the Roman legions.Throughout their history, the Romans remained a primarily land-based people and relied partially on their more nautically …

WebNantes (/ n ɒ̃ t /, US also / n ɑː n t (s)/, French: (); Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt; Breton: Naoned) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast.The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire …