Nîmes
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Nemausus
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Situated at the foot of barren hills, the Monts Garrigues, in a plain of vinyards. It was the capital of a Gaulish tribe; taken by Rome in 121 BCE, it became a chief city of Roman Gaul. It was plundered by Vandals and Visigoths in the 5th century. It was occupied by Saracens until 737, and then was under the counts of Toulouse in the 10th century. It joined the French crown territories in 1229. It was a Protestant stronghold in the 16th century; it was the scene of an uprising in 1815. It is noted for well-preserved Roman buildings and artifacts.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); MacKendrick, Roman France (1971); Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979); Times Atlas of World History (1989); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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