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    century, this oppidum was renamed, "Sancta Maria de Ratis" (English:Saint Mary of the Raft), a name which evolved into Notre-Dame-de-la-Barque when the...
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    Metz (redirect from Ville de Metz)
    euroregion. Metz has a rich 3,000-year history, having variously been a Celtic oppidum, an important Gallo-Roman city, the Merovingian capital of Austrasia, the...
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    inhabitants. It is a city of art and history, still known as "Ville aux cent clochers" (literal translation: "City of hundred bell towers"). With more than 29...
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    existence in Luxembourg have been discovered, the most famous being the Oppidum of Titelberg. In around 58 to 51 BC, the Romans invaded the country when...
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    Aude (redirect from Département de l'Aude)
    Romans, led by the consul-general Domitius Ahenobarbus, first occupied the oppidum of Montlaurès in 118 BC, a few kilometres to the north of Narbonne. This...
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    includes a 1st-century BC tomb of an ancient Allobrogian chieftain. An oppidum erected on the hill of Saint-Pierre allowed them to control the inland...
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    Maison Saint-Simon in Rue de la Cloche-Verte (16th century) built in the Renaissance style. The Hotel de Bardines at 79 Rue de Beaulieu (18th century) is...
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    in prehistoric times, including the Pech de la Nène. Before the Roman conquest, the Gauls built an oppidum on the Impernal, naturally fortified by its...
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    Portuguese vocabulary (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Breton kloc'h; cognate of Asturian llueca and llócara 'cowbell', French cloche 'bell', German Glock. derivatives: chocar 'to bang, to shock', chocalho...
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  • historiques". Ministère de la Culture. "Liste des monuments pour lesquels des secours ont été demandés" (PDF). Ministère de la culture. Choay, Françoise...
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