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Meaning of "oppidum"

Oppidum is a Latin term used to refer to a large fortified Iron Age settlement in ancient Europe
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  • A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture.

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Engehalbinsel oppidum ruins discovered near city.
The hilltop was probably used as an oppidum or hill fort.
The oppidum was located on a plateau of c.
Who inhabited the oppidum is unclear.
An outer fortification was placed beyond the northeast edge of the oppidum.
The traces of an oppidum are still visible there.
It is known for its oppidum.
This site was once home to an oppidum before the first castle was constructed.
Recent archaeological excavations have allowed to reconstruct the history of this oppidum.
Settlement density within the oppidum was not evenly distributed.
The oppidum was in use throughout the Roman occupation.
Later it is said to be an oppidum or castrum.
Oppidum expugnare was the Roman term for besieging cities.
Especially the edge of the oppidum may have served as fields.
Titelberg resembles a number of other Celtic oppidum sites.

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Eine was an Iberian oppidum or fortified town.
Teyssode is located on a former Roman oppidum.
It is possible that it already had been oppidum before the Ottoman occupation.
However it is the oppidum of Nages that has provided the richest archeological finds.
Menosgada was the northernmost oppidum in Bavaria.
Bonnieux was an oppidum or fortified village inhabited since the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
The one in Tréglonou is associated with a real oppidum of about.
Caesar countered by defending the oppidum and winning an action at the Aisne.
Nowadays the most common theory is that the wall protected a Celtic oppidum.
There are remains of an oppidum from the Iron Age.
The Roman epoch of the history of the city of Cologne begins with this oppidum.
The Celtic oppidum was destroyed.
On a mountain range between Aups and Vérignon is an oppidum of the Verrucini.
The Romans built the oppidum of Ruscino the east of the city.
One of the best known cities in Jaén is the oppidum of Puente Tablas.
The Celtic Oppidum Steinsburg is located on the mountain.
There was no significant Iron Age oppidum in this area.
An oppidum occupied the site of Castellas in the Iron Age.
Roche de Vic is a former Gallic oppidum that dominated the region.
It was the site of a fortified Celtic settlement, or oppidum.
See also Oppidum.
An Oppidum was a fortified warehouse, where a tribe 's treasures were stored and guarded.
In Roman times the city was called Oppidum Novum.
In antiquity, the oppidum at Entremont was the capital of the Celtic-Ligurian confederation.
The Gauls in Provence and the oppidum of Entremont.
Gorgobina was a Celtic oppidum ( fortified city ) on the territory of the Aedui tribe.
The asteroid was named for the Celtic Oppidum Závist.
Thus, the Manching oppidum was one of the largest settlements north of the Alps.
The Baux oppidum.
However, Caesar 's legions where victorious and successfully defended the oppidum.
It takes its name from the Celto-Ligurian oppidum on which it was built.
The oppidum dominates all the plain of Béziers, and its famous vineyard.
From the Romans it was also called the name Albanorum oppidum Fortress of the Arberites.
Coeliobriga, An oppidum near Celanova, most probably the capital of the Coelerni.
A small car ride away, the village of Lagrand appears, based on an ancient Gallic oppidum.

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