Uxellodunum
Sign in to savethumb|The siege in the campaign of 51 BC. Uxellodunum can be found on this map in the territory of the Cadurci in south west Gaul.
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- oppidum
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- Gallic War
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- France
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- Description of siege
- [[s:Commentaries on the Gallic War/Book 8#40|''Commentaries'', Book 8]]
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thumb|The siege in the campaign of 51 BC. Uxellodunum can be found on this map in the territory of the Cadurci in south west Gaul.
Uxellodunum is an Iron Age hill fort, or oppidum, located above the river Dordogne near the modern-day French village of Vayrac in the Lot department. This stronghold lay within the lands of the Cadurci tribe. According to Aulus Hirtius in his addendum to Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, the last revolt against Rome's authority in Gaul occurred here, and was brutally punished.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uxellodunum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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