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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...
- territory of modern-day Slovakia was settled by Celts, who built powerful oppida on the sites of modern-day Bratislava and Devín. Biatecs, silver coins with...
- often on or near the sites of preexisting walled settlements known as oppida. Urbanization in Roman Africa expanded on Gr**** and Punic coastal cities...
- 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...
- 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...
- construction of defensive walls used to protect Iron Age hillforts and oppida of the La Tene period in Western Europe. The distinctive features are: earth...
- tribes (toutās), many of whom built large fortified settlements called oppida (such as Bibracte), and minted their own coins. Gaul was never united under...
- different tribes and nations from the 3rd century centered upon fortified oppida and representing a wide-ranging degree of local ****imilation with the autochthonous...