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    Vannes (redirect from Darioritum)
    either slaughtered or sold into slavery. The Romans settled a town called Darioritum in a location previously belonging to the Veneti. From the 5th to the...
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    cities were created. These cities are Condate (Rennes), Vorgium (Carhaix), Darioritum (Vannes) and Condevincum or Condevicnum (Nantes). Together with Fanum...
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    (usually) court was at Gwened, the site of the former Roman settlement of Darioritum and the present French city of Vannes. Today its territories are included...
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    century with a Gaulish one: Lutetia became Paris (city of the Parisii), and Darioritum became Vannes (city of the Veneti). Nantes's name continued to evolve...
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    during the war of 56 BC – as living in clifftop oppida. Their capital was Darioritum, on the Gulf of Morbihan, now modern Vannes/Gwened. The Veneti had close...
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    Morbihan bay. Their most notable city, and probably their capital, was Darioritum (now known as Gwened in Breton or Vannes in French), mentioned in Ptolemy's...
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    Nantes) Civitas Coriosolitum (Fanum Martis, Corseul) Civitas Venetum (Darioritum, Vannes) Civitas Osismorum (Vorgium, Carhaix) Civitas Diablintum (Noviodunum...
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    left trapped on the rocks vulnerable when the tide ebbed. Their capital, Darioritum, in modern-day Vannes, was extremely difficult to attack from land. At...
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  • Riedonum Rennes Crisenaria Cressy Cularo Grenoble Damovilla Damville Darioritum Vannes Dinia, Diniensium civitas Digne-les-Bains, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence...
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  • Asterix and Obelix are taking Geriatrix to a dentist at a market in Darioritum, when a sibyl predicts Obelix will become a champion charioteer. Obelix...
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  • formerly held by the Veneti Gauls, without actually gaining control of Darioritum itself. The settlement became a Gallo-Frankish enclave before later being...
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