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Vellaunodunum

Western Europe

Vellaunodunum was a Gallic oppidum of the Senones tribe in what is now France, located two days march from Agedincum. During the revolt of Vercingetorix in 52 BC, Julius Caesar besieged the town, which surrendered within three days and handed over six hundred hostages.

Facts
Latitude
48.5 degrees north 1
Longitude
2.5 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
Sources
1. Vellaunodunum (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 48.5, longitude 2.5
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2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 48.5,2.5
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 84.0
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 48.75, 2.75
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48.75 2.75 Cfb
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4. GeoNames: Nainville-les-Roches - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2991035, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.72 km)
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48.50559 2.49505 P PPL FR 11 91 912 91441 512 77 Europe/Paris
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Wikidata: Vellaunodunum
Wikidata Q673209, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Vellaunodunum (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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