Alesia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G.D. Woolf
Creators: G.D. Woolf
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
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Mar 30, 2026 06:00 AM
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History
A Gallic oppidum, the site of Caesar's defeat of Vercingetorix, and afterward a Gallo-Roman town.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177434
47.536622, 4.503884
- Representative Locations:
- Center point of the site Alésia, commune Alise-Sainte-Reine (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Alesia (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Alise-Ste.-Reine (French, unspecified date range)
- Alesia connection Mandubii (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 18 B2 Alesia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alise-Ste.-Reine
G.D. Woolf, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Alesia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177434> [accessed: 13 October 2026]
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