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Filtering by Country: France gave 275 results.

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Murviel (Murviel-lès-Montpellier)

Murviel-lès-Montpellier is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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Mons Seleucus (La Bâtie-Montsaléon)

La Bâtie-Montsaléon is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. It is notable for being the location of the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, when Constantius II defeated the usurper Magnentius.

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Pons Saravi (Sarrebourg)

Sarrebourg is a commune of northeastern France. In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.

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Sequana

Sequana refers to the Seine region and its associated cult landscape in Roman Gaul.

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Interanum

Interanum is recorded as a findspot for Mithraic material in Roman Gaul.

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Narbo (Narbonne)

Narbonne rboː]; Late Latin: Narbona is a commune and subprefecture in Southern France, located in the Occitania region.

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Argentoratum (Strasbourg)

Argentoratum or Argentorate was the ancient name of Strasbourg. Its name was first mentioned in 12 BC, when it was a Roman military outpost established by Nero Claudius Drusus. The Legio VIII Augusta was stationed there from 90 AD.

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Lugdunum (Lyon)

Lugdunum, currently Lyon, France, was the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. Two emperors, Claudius and Caracalla, were born in Lugdunum.

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Lezoux (Lezoux)

Lezoux became an important centre of Gallo-Roman ceramic production renowned throughout the western provinces.

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Septeuil (Septeuil)

Septeuil has been known in Mithriacism since 1984, when a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras was discovered in the 4th century. It was located in a spring sanctuary (nymphaeum) of the 1st century.

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Apta Iulia (Apt)

Apta Iulia was a Roman town in Narbonensis, today Apt in southern France.

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Apta Julia (Apt)

Apt is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Lucey (Lucey)

Lucey is associated with archaeological discoveries from Roman Gaul.

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Sextantio (Castelnau-le-Lez)

Sextantio occupied a strategic position near the Mediterranean routes of southern Gaul.

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Vienna (Vienne)

Vienna was the capital of the Allobroges, a Gallic people, until it was conquered by the Romans in 47 BC. It became a Roman provincial capital, conveniently located on the Rhône, then a major communication route.

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Juliomagus (Angers)

Juliomagus, modern Angers, preserves evidence of Mithraic activity within the urban and administrative landscape of Roman northwestern Gaul.

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Venetonimagus (Valromey)

Venetonimagus, now Vieu, part of the town of Valromey, would have been called Venetonimagus or Venetonimago in Gallo-Roman times.

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Intaranum (Entrains-sur-Nohain)

Entrains-sur-Nohain is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.

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Soulan (Soulan)

Soulan is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.

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