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The Roman city was founded as Colonia Copia Felix Munatia, a name invoking prosperity and the blessing of the gods. The city became increasingly referred to as Lugdunum (and occasionally Lugudunum[7]) by the end of the 1st century AD. During the Middle Ages, Lugdunum was transformed to Lyon by natural sound change.
The Battle of Lugdunum, also called the Battle of Lyon, was fought on 19 February 197 at Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), between the armies of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and of the Roman usurper Clodius Albinus.
Aug 9, 2023 · The immense battle that occurred in modern France in the year 197 is little-known. But we can be fairly sure of one thing: despite the great civil wars between Caesar and Pompey and Augustus and Anthony, Lugdunum was the greatest and bloodiest clash between two Roman armies in history.
Sep 26, 2024 · Lugdunum declined from c.250, as imperial attention was directed increasingly to the Rhine frontier, and its primacy was usurped by Augusta Treverorum. Early Lugdunum occupied the heights west of the confluence of the Rhône and Saône.
Lugdunum: main Roman city in the "three Gauls", site of the imperial cult, modern Lyon.
Lugdunum has one of the finest archaeological collections in France. Covering a 4,000-square-meter surface, the museum presents all the aspects of public and private life in an imperial capital: urban layout, municipal administration, the army, currency, religions, circus games and trade; it houses real treasures that tell of the origins of the ...
Lugdunum was a naval base and fortified military granary at the estuary of the river Rhine. It was probably the location of one of the strangest incidents from ancient history. In 40 CE, the Roman emperor Caligula arrived at the beach with many soldiers, probably belonging to the newly recruited Twenty-second Legion Primigenia .
Nov 14, 2018 · Lugdunum, Gallia Lugdunensis – Part I. Posted on November 14, 2018 by Rob. Detail of a mosaic depicting Dionysus and the personifications of Spring and Winter. Found in Lyon and displayed in the Musée Gallo-Romain de Lyon-Fourvière. Most Recent Visit: June 2018.
LUGDUNUM (Lyon) Rhône, France. Federal capital of the Tres Galliae (Lugdunensis, Aquitania, Belgica), at the confluence of the Saône and the Rhône. When Gallic independence came to an end there were two Celtic settlements: an oppidum on the morainal hill of Fourvière (on the right bank of the Arar, mod. Saône) that grew up around the ...
(1)Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum (mod. Lyon), founded in 43 bce by L. *Munatius Plancus, and to the mid-3rd cent. the metropolis of the north-west of the Roman empire.
