Arverni

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Arverni

Category:Tribes involved in Caesar's Gallic Wars

The Arverni were a Gallic

Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
tribe that inhabited the present-day region of Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. They gave their name to the French region of Auvergne

Auvergne (région)

Auvergne is one of the 26 administrative regions of France of France.The current administrative region of Auvergne is larger than the historical provinces of France of Auvergne , and includes provinces and areas that historically were not part of Auvergne....
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The Arverni were a very powerful tribe living in Auvergne, with their most important stronghold being Gergovia

Gergovia

Gergovia was a Gaul town in modern Auvergne, near present-day Clermont-Ferrand and Gergovie. It was the chief town of the Arverni and the site of the Battle of Gergovia, in 52Before Christ The battle was fought between a Roman Republic army, led by proconsul Julius Caesar and Gallic forces led by Vercingetorix....
(near present-day Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand

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Category:Tribes involved in Caesar's Gallic Wars

The Arverni were a Gallic

Gallic

Clermont-Ferrand

France

Auvergne (région)

Gergovia

Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune in France of France, in the Auvergne regions of France, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census....
). They had been the most powerful Gallic tribe in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC under their king, Luernios, but when his son Bituitus

Bituitus

Bituitus was a 2nd century BCE king of the Gallic Arverni tribe. The Arverni were a powerful opponent of the Roman Republic during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE under the leadership of Luernios, the father of Bituitus....
was defeated by the Romans in 123 BC and the Roman ‘Provincia

Gallia Narbonensis

Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. Narbonese Gaul "lay between the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea, and the C?vennes Mountains....
’ (whose name gave rise to the French region of Provence

Provence

Provence is a region of southeastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative regions of France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur....
) established, their ascendancy passed to the Aedui

Aedui

Aedui, Haedui or Hedui , are Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar and Liger , in today's France....
and Sequani

Sequani

Sequani, in ancient geography, were a Gallic people who occupied the upper basin of the Arar , their territory corresponding to Franche-Comt? and part of Burgundy ....
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One of the most famous princes in the history of Gaul belonged to the Arverni tribe: Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix , born around 82 BC, died 46 BC, was tribal chief of the Arverni, originating from the Arvernian city of Gergovia and known as the man who led the Gauls in their ultimately unsuccessful war against Roman republic rule under Julius Caesar....
. He was responsible for leading the last major rebellion against the Roman occupation of the Gaul homeland, but was defeated decisively at the Siege of Alesia by Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
, and executed five years later.

Arverni

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