{"id":10887,"date":"2024-01-10T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roamintheempire.com\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2023-11-19T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:58:06","slug":"castrum-divionense-gallia-lugdunensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roamintheempire.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/castrum-divionense-gallia-lugdunensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Castrum Divionense, Gallia Lugdunensis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bronze figure depicting Sequana, the personification of the Sequana (modern Seine) on a duck boat. Mus\u00e9e Arch\u00e9ologique de Dijon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Little is known about the history of the Roman and pre-Roman settlement that preceded the Castrum Divionense; Divio (Modern Dijon, France). The name seems to derive from a word relating to a sacred fountain, which may have been present there. Evidence suggests habitation in the area from at least the Neolithic period onward, but the foundation date of Divio is unknown. The area and any pre-Roman settlements presumably came under the hegemony of Rome along with the rest of the area following Caesar\u2019s conquest in the Gallic Wars around 50 BCE. Funerary finds suggest a fairly robust settlement in the 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> centuries CE, however no extensive remains from the core city from that period are present. It was located on the primary branch of the Via Agrippa between Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (modern K\u00f6ln) and Lugdunum<\/a> (modern Lyon), constructed in the late 1st<\/sup> century BCE. In the 3rd<\/sup> century CE, probably during the reign of Aurelian, a fortress was built here, Castrum Divionense. This was seemingly constructed on what would have been the core of the previous settlement of Divio.<\/p>\n