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    The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls (French: Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules) of Lugdunum (Lyon) was part of the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls dedicated...
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    Blandina (category Year of birth unknown)
    tortures with a number of companions in the town's amphitheater (now known as the Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls) at the time of the public games. One such...
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    Lugdunum (redirect from Capital of gaul)
    from the Lugdunum mint for many years. The "council of the three Gauls" continued to be held annually for nearly three centuries, even after Gaul was divided...
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    Lyon (redirect from The weather in Lyon)
    Theatre of Fourvière, the Odeon of Lyon and the accompanying Gallo-Roman museum Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls – ruins of a Roman amphitheatre. Ancient...
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    (secondary coordinates) The remains of at least 230 Roman amphitheatres have been found widely scattered around the area of the Roman Empire. These are...
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    The Sanctuary of the Three Gauls (Tres Galliae) (French: Sanctuaire fédéral des Trois Gaules) was the focal structure within an administrative and religious...
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    decree of Augustus. This theater was later expanded under Hadrian to include around 10,700 seats. In 19 AD the Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls was inaugurated...
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    than the theater performances. It was also used as a meeting room for the notables of the city. Ancient Theatre of Fourvière Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls...
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    The persecution in Lyon in AD 177 was an outbreak of persecution of Christians in Lugdunum, Roman Gaul (present-day Lyon, France), during the reign of...
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    consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman culture...
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    century, the marble statue was usually known as The Dying Gladiator, on the assumption that it depicted a wounded gladiator in a Roman amphitheatre. However...
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    The Tours amphitheater (also known as the Caesarodunum amphitheater) is a Roman amphitheatre located in the historic city center of Tours, France, immediately...
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    Mediolanum (category History of Milan)
    theater and an amphitheatre (129.5 X 109.3 m). A large stone wall encircled the city in Caesar's time, and later was expanded in the late third century...
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    Lutetia (category Populated places in pre-Roman Gaul)
    routes. In the first century BC, the settlement was conquered by Romans and a city began to be built. Remains of the Roman forum, amphitheatre, aqueduct...
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    Gaul which collaterally involved Roman alliances and politics. The divisions within the Gauls – they were no unified bloc – would be exploited in the...
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    so some of the earliest types of gladiators were experienced fighters; Gauls, Samnites, and Thraeces (Thracians) used their native weapons and armor...
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    as the Vexin. The Gauls named the settlement Ratumacos and the Romans called it Rotomagus. Roman Rotomagus was the second city of Gallia Lugdunensis...
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    Ascaric (category Year of birth unknown)
    with the Frankish invasions of Gaul in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries: numbers IX, VI and VII. Only VI provides any significant detail. The authors...
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    Aventicum (category Geography of the canton of Vaud)
    0 ft). The first amphitheatre could hold about 9,000 people. The second phase expanded the amphitheatre considerably. A total of 31 rows of stone seats were...
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    Gladiator (category 3rd-century BC establishments in the Roman Republic)
    first in the city of Rome was the extraordinary wooden amphitheatre of Gaius Scribonius Curio (built in 53 BC). The first part-stone amphitheatre in Rome...
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    The Ivrea Morainic Amphitheatre (sometimes abbreviated as AMI) is a moraine relief of glacial origin located in the Canavese region. Administratively...
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    Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum. Flavian rule came to an end on 18 September 96, when Domitian was assassinated. He was succeeded by the longtime...
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  • gladiatorial contests; one was held at the Forum in memory of his father and the other at the amphitheatre in memory of his grandfather Drusus. Exactly how...
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    French). "Théâtre amphithéâtre de Lisieux". Notice No. PA00111665, on the open heritage platform, Base Mérimée, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)...
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  • forcing the Etruscans, Gauls, and Umbrians to make peace 293 BC – Battle of Aquilonia – Romans decisively defeat the Samnites. Wars with Gauls and Etruscans...
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    Deva Victrix (category 70s establishments in the Roman Empire)
    grew around the fortress. Chester's Roman Amphitheatre, south-east of the fortress, is the largest-known military amphitheatre in Britain. The civilian settlement...
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    also the first of at least three gladiator classes (list of Roman gladiator types) to be based on ethnic antecedents; other examples were the Gauls and...
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    maintaining a balance of power between her three senior officers, Aetius (magister militum in Gaul), Count Boniface (governor in the Diocese of Africa), and Flavius...
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  • about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Following tradition, this timeline marks the deposition of Romulus...
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    "Lutetia of the Parisii", modern French Lutèce). It became a prosperous city with a forum, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre. By the end of the Western...
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