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Oppidan
Oppidan Op"pi*dan, a. [L. oppidanus, fr. oppidum town.] Of or pertaining to a town. --Howell.

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- An oppidum (pl.: oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town. Oppida are primarily ****ociated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging...
- Astures. The most notable characteristics of this culture are its walled oppida and hillforts, known locally as castros, from Latin castrum 'castle', and...
- The Helvetians were subjugated after 52 BC, and under Augustus, Celtic oppida, such as Vindonissa or Basilea, were re-purposed as garrisons. In AD 68...
- Coniumbriga Collipo Eburobrittium Ierabriga The ****uli Oppidani or ****ulorum Oppida (Latin: "oppidums of the ****uli" or "Strongholds of the ****uli"), were...
- tribes (toutās), many of whom built large fortified settlements called oppida (such as Bibracte), and minted their own coins. Gaul was never united under...
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- appear in the 1st century BC, and are known to archaeologists as oppida. Generally these oppida became the main urban centres of the various tribal divisions...
- often on or near the sites of preexisting walled settlements known as oppida. Urbanization in Roman Africa expanded on Gr**** and Punic coastal cities...
- In Central Europe, the Celts built large fortified settlements known as oppida, whose walls seem partially influenced by those built in the Mediterranean...
- Europe, oppida emerged in the 2nd century BC; these were densely inhabited fortified settlements, such as the oppidum of Manching. Some oppida walls were...