Alesia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: G.D. Woolf

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Oct 12, 2024 11:32 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:feature=settlement, dare:major=0

A Gallic oppidum, the site of Caesar's defeat of Vercingetorix, and afterward a Gallo-Roman town.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177434

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
47.536622, 4.503884

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Center point of the site Alésia, commune Alise-Sainte-Reine (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Alesia (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)

Alesia makes connections with:

Alesia connection Mandubii (unspecified date range)

Alesia receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 18 B2 Alesia

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alise-Ste.-Reine

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Suggested citation:
G.D. Woolf, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Alesia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177434> [accessed: 21 June 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177434 |title=Places: 177434 (Alesia) |author=Woolf, G. |accessdate=June 21, 2025 7:38 am |publisher=Pleiades}}