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oppidum
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Oppidum
- Ancient site.image
- File:Celtic Oppidum 1st century B.C..jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Modern-day rendering of a Celtic oppidum. 1st century BC.
- Ancient site.location
- France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovakia, Serbia, Hungary
- Ancient site.cultures
- Celts, La Tène culture, Ancient Rome
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- type
- Subclass of
- urban agglomeration
- Image
- Celtic Oppidum 1st century B.C..jpg
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- Commons category
- Oppida
- topic's main category
- Category:Oppida
- time period
- Iron Age
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Definition
- Location and type
- History
- Examples
- France
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Britain
- Iberian peninsula
- Elsewhere
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|260x260px|Distribution of fortified oppida, La Tène culture|La Tène period
An oppidum (: oppida) is a large fortified European Iron Age settlement or town. Oppida are primarily associated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, spread across Europe, stretching from Britain and Iberia in the west to the edge of the Hungarian Plain in the east. These settlements continued to be used until the Romans conquered Southern and Western Europe. Many subsequently became Roman-era towns and cities, whilst others were abandoned. In regions north of the rivers Danube and Rhine, such as most of Germania, where the populations remained independent from Rome, oppida continued to be used into the 1st century AD.
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