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Arelate

The Romans took Arelate from the Ligurians in 123 BC and made it an important city by building a canal towards the Mediterranean. Present-day Arles has preserved many Roman buildings.

 
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Argentoratum

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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Bergoiata

Bourg-Saint-Andéol is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Rhône Valley in southern France.

 
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Vienna

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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Divio

Dijon is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period.

 
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Gesoriacum

Boulogne-sur-Mer; Picard: Boulonne-su-Mér; Dutch: Bonen; Latin: Gesoriacum or Bononia, often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France.

 
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Juliomagus

Angers is a city in western France, about 300 km southwest of Paris. Angers proper covers 42.

 
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Les Bolards

Nuits-Saint-Georges is a commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France.

 
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Mariana

Mariana is a Roman site south of Biguglia, in the Haute-Corse département of the Corsica région of south-east France.

 
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Mons Seleucus

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 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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Vasio

Vaison-la-Romaine is a town in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Vaison-la-Romaine is famous for its rich Roman ruins and mediaeval town and cathedral. The old town is split into two parts: the

 
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Venetonimagus

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

 
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Burdigala

Around 300 BC, Burdigala was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci. The Romans conquered the area in 60 BC and made Burdigala the capital of the Roman province of Aquitania during the reign of Emperor Vespasian.

 
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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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Minelle

 
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Dyo

Dyo is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

 
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Lugdunum

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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Elusa

Eauze is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

 
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Aquae Sextiae

Aix-en-Provence or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km north of Marseille.

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