City
Entremont (oppidum)
Western Europe
Entremont is an ancient hilltop settlement on the Puyricard plateau three kilometers from Aix-en-Provence in southern France, covering about 3.5 hectares. It served as the fortified capital of the Celtic-Ligurian Salyes confederation, occupied from roughly 180 to 170 BC and enclosed by ramparts around two successive habitation quarters. Rome captured and abandoned the site in 123 BC, replacing it with the new city of Aquae Sextiae, today's Aix-en-Provence, at the foot of the plateau, and the oppidum was fully depopulated by 90 BC. Excavations there recovered an important collection of pre-Roman stone sculpture, including seated warriors and severed heads, now held in the Musee Granet.
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Founding Year Latitude43.552222 degrees north 2 Sources
1. Entremont (oppidum) (Wikipedia)
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It was settled between 180 and 170 B.C., somewhat later than the inhabitation of other oppida, such as Saint-Blaise (7th to 2nd centuries B.C.).
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It was settled between 180 and 170 B.C., somewhat later than the inhabitation of other oppida, such as Saint-Blaise (7th to 2nd centuries B.C.).
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source2. Entremont (oppidum) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 43.552222, longitude 5.439167
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