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Siege of Alesia (52 BC)
On the Ancient Rome map as “Alesia”
52 BC — At Alesia, Vercingetorix’s united Gaul is defeated in a double siege. Ancient counts put the cost of the Gallic War at a million dead and a million enslaved, from a population of three or four million.
When 52 BC Type Site of memory Chapter Julius Caesar and the civil war (chapter 5 of Ancient Rome)Atlas The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 SITE OF MEMORY · THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME, 264 BC – AD 476 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 · The Metropolitan Museum: The Roman Republic · Natural Earth physical coastlines and rivers
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, and reprojected by Maps of History; dated adjustments are recorded per layer.. CC BY 4.0 Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000).. Historical evidence citation; no prose or map copied Made with Natural Earth. Modern physical geography is a coastline/river reference, not evidence of ancient sovereignty.. Public domain Displayed geometry: -50 (s50); chapter framing: -52. The map shows the moment selected for the chapter, even when the chapter spans several events.
proxy: 144–127 BC Pergamene domain reference · reconstruction: Modern physical shoreline reference · vector: -110 to -32 · vector: -50 to -28 · vector: -50 to -50 · vector: -63 to -26 · vector: -63 to -41 · vector: -63 to -43 · vector: -63 to -50 · vector: -63 to 113 · vector: -63 to 116 · vector: -63 to 22 · vector: -63 to 59 · vector: -63 to 67 · vector: -630 to 337 · vector: -66 to -37 · vector: -66 to -50 · vector: -87 to -43 · vector: -91 to -43 · vector: -91 to -50
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