Arelate

About

As a reward for his support of Julius Caesar against Marseilles in 49 BC, Arles (or Arelate, according to the toponym of the time), became a Roman colony. The original fortune of the city dates back to that time. Benefiting for more than five centuries from a strategic geopolitical situation on the Rhone, successive planning plans and the support of several emperors, it became one of the first Christian homes of the Gauls and imperial residence then, at the end of the fourth century, prefecture of the precinct. Assieged in 425, 430, 453, 457 and 471, the city was finally taken by King Visigoth Euric, first in 472 and finally in 476.