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

Poitiers

Also known as City of Poitiers

  • city
  • Roman/Early Christian

A hill city of western Gaul above the Clain, ringed by fields that became a historic battleground. Roman walls and a later cathedral mark a town Gibbon cites in the wars of Gaul and the Franks.

Type
city
Style
Roman/Early Christian
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 165
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)

    A hill city of western Gaul above the Clain, ringed by fields that became a historic battleground. Roman walls and a later cathedral mark a town Gibbon cites in the wars of Gaul and the Franks.

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