Avenio

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Avenio is the ancient Latin name of the city of Avignon, attested as early as the 2nd century BC in the Hellenized form of A.A. The city finds its origins on the site of the rock of the Doms, occupied from the Neolithic and which constitutes a major strategic point of control over the Rhône and its exchanges. Oppidum volque in the third century B.C.

then Cavares from the second century B.C., Auenión is integrated into the Mediterranean commercial networks under the influence of Greek Massaliate. Avenio was then gradually integrated into the Roman sphere at the end of the 2nd century BC. In the first century B.C.

it became a city under Latin law and then a Latin colony of the Narbonnaise Gaul under Augustus. The Hellenized oppidum then became a city and experienced significant urban development between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century BC, extending from its original nucleus on the rock towards the Rhone Alluvial Plain. The city became a Roman colony in the second century under Hadrian, with ramparts, a forum, public buildings, a structured old network, an aqueduct and monumental equipment still poorly identified (theatrical, thermal and amphitheater).

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