The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Orleans

Also known as Aurelianensis, Cenabum

  • city
  • Roman provincial fortified city

The Loire city anciently Cenabum and later Aurelianum, a crossing point of central Gaul. Gibbon notes it among the towns threatened in the age of Attila and the Franks.

Type
city
Style
Roman provincial fortified city
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 152
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The Loire city anciently Cenabum and later Aurelianum, a crossing point of central Gaul. Gibbon notes it among the towns threatened in the age of Attila and the Franks.

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