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Battle of Gergovia
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The Battle of Gergovia took place in 52 BC at Gergovia (modern Gergovie), the chief town of the Arverni, situated on a hill in Auvergne, about eight miles from the Puy de Dome, France. Julius Caesar attacked, but was beaten off by the army of Vercingetorix; some walls and earthworks seem still to survive from this period. Later, when Gaul had been subdued, the place was dismantled and its Gaulish inhabitants resettled four miles away in the plain at the new Roman city of Augustonemetum (modern Clermont-Ferrand).
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