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    Arles (redirect from Arelate)
    Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Classical Latin: Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture...
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  • The Battle of Arelate was fought in 458 near Arelate (Arles) between Western Roman Emperor Majorian and Visigothic king Theodoric II. After the assassination...
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  • Hadrian and the Second Sophistic. He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in Arelate (Arles). He received a refined education, first in Gallia Narbonensis and...
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    attack on Italy in 457, Majorian intercepted the Visigoths in the Battle of Arelate, defeating them and saving the city. Securing Septimania, he reduced the...
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  • Cerceris arelate is a species of wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is found in North America. "Cerceris arelate Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information...
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    Plan-du-Bourg Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine. [Arelate] Wikimapia location: Arelate. [Arelate] The Circus | Arles at circusmaximus.us. [Lugdunum]...
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  • Arles (ancient Arelate) in the south of Roman Gaul (modern France) hosted several councils or synods referred to as Concilium Arelatense in the history...
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  • Majorian defeated him. In the same year, Aegidius led troops at the Battle of Arelate against the Visigoths, where he is credited by ancient sources as being...
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    new Emperor was acclaimed by the Gallic chiefs gathered in Viernum, near Arelate (Arles), and later, around 5 August, before Avitus reached Rome, he received...
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    renewed by later emperors. The road runs from Placentia (modern Piacenza) to Arelate (modern Arles), initially westward along the edge of the plain of the River...
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    tenure as emperor of the West, especially in Augustodunum (Autun) and Arelate (Arles). According to Lactantius, Constantine followed a tolerant policy...
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    refusing to acknowledge Majorian as lawful emperor. At the Battle of Arelate, Majorian decisively defeated the Visigoths under Theoderic II and forced...
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    supply bread for as many as 10,000 or perhaps even 30–40,000 inhabitants of Arelate at that time. It is thought that the wheels were overshot water wheels...
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    arrived in southern Gaul and took command of the field army. At that time Arelate, an important city in Narbonensis near the mouth of the Rhone, was under...
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    separated some imperial provinces from the rest of the Empire. Even though Arelate and Marseilles in Southern Gaul were still governed by the Western court...
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  • Tonantius Ferreolus Firminus (455 or 460 – c. 503), v. inl. at Arles, then Arelate, and a propinq. of Magnus Felix Ennodius Probatius (certain son), Bishop...
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  • many of the Roman military units from Britain to Gaul and occupies Arles (Arelate). This is generally seen as Rome's withdrawal from Britain. 410: Rome ransacked...
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    Florian-Ayala Fauna, American artist, musician, and music producer. Favorinus of Arelate (c. 80 – c. 160 AD), a Roman sophist and philosopher who flourished during...
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    Model of the Roman city of Arelate (Arles)...
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    Velzeke-Ruddershove (Belgium) – Provincial Archaeological Museum of Velzeke Arelate (modern Arles) Grand Lugdunum (modern Lyon) Nemausus (modern Nîmes) Lutetia...
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    his own puppet emperor. He defeated Constantine and was besieging him in Arelate when Honorius's general Constantius arrived from Italy with an army (possibly...
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    disbanded in 45 BC after the battle of Munda, establishing a colony at Arelate (Arles), but was re-formed by Lepidus the following year (44 BC) and was...
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    to supply enough bread for the 12,500 inhabitants occupying the town of Arelate at that time. A similar mill complex existed on the Janiculum hill, whose...
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    (or, according to other estimates, in 395), when it was transferred to Arelate (Arles). The prefecture continued to function until 477, when the last...
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    Georgiann Davis Seven Graham Alicia Roth Weigel Tony Briffa Favorinus of Arelate has been described as having partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. Small...
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    territory. During what has become known as the Battle of Arles (471), near Arelate, presently Arles, Euric defeated a Roman army, killing three Roman counts...
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  • from the Chronicon of Hydatius: 92: Per Aetium comitem, haud procul de Arelate, quaedam Gothorum manus extinguitur, Anaolso optimate eorum capto. — Hydatius...
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    (Italy, Illyricum and Africa) Caesar 1 March 317 – 9 September 337 Born 316 Arelate, Viennensis Died April 340 (aged 23 or 24) Aquileia, Italy Dynasty Constantinian...
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    other wavering barbarian residents in Gaul. The coalition assembled at Arelate (Arles) before moving to meet the Goths at Tolosa (Toulouse), and the army...
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    plague in the Kingdom of the Franks after the Justinianic Plague struck Arelate (Arles) and the surrounding region in the late 540s. Various portents were...
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