An overview of the entire history of the Roman. Fragments of a huge map of the city of Rome at a scale of 240:1 survives and fragments of a public stone land registry from Orange in France (Roman Arausio).

This article takes the story of Rome from the foundation of the city of Rome in the 8th century BCE right up to the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, in the first century BCE. The Cimbri and the Teutoni had invaded the Roman province of Transalpine Gaul about 110 bc. The rise of the Roman Empire took place over centuries and included many ups and downs. Towards the middle of the sixteenth century the city passed to the Princes of Nassau, and then, when William Henry of Nassau became King of England in 1689 it was rules by the Princes of Orange-Nassau, who governed until the Peace of Utrecht (1713) – at which time the principality was incorporated into French territory by the ‘Sun King, Louis XIV. 6, 105 bc), the defeat of a Roman army by Germanic tribes near Arausio (now Orange in southern France). To the same William the town owes its coat of arms, depicting a ‘horn’ (as in William au ‘Cornet’).īetween the twelfth and fourteenth century, Orange was ruled by several noble families it was first incorporated in Venassin County, whose overlord was the troubadour Rimbaut of Orange, and then by the Baux and Chalons.

The centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire were a very difficult time for Orange, and it was invaded by numerous peoples barbarians including the Alamanni and the Visigoths.Īt the end of the eighth century, Charlemagne recognized the importance of Orange, and entrusted its government to William au-Cornet, one of his men who had distinguished himself in the wars against the Saracens. Under the Romans Orange was a splendid city, and one that has left many traces that can still be seen today. The ‘real’ story of Orange starts with the arrival of the Romans who left their indelible traces on the city: it was here that Julius Caesar settled his veterans of the Second Legion. The ancient name of Orange was ‘Arausio’ or ‘Arusio. Close-up Of Human Hand Holding Magnifying Glass Over Paper Cadastre Map Stock. 80,000 legionaries and 40,000 auxiliaries and camp followers were killed in Rome's worst defeat since the Battle of Cannae, and the Germans then proceeded to invade Hispania.According to ancient legends, the city was founded by the Phoenicians, to whom we also owe the birth of Marseilles. His smaller force was easily stopped, surrounded, and slaughtered by the Germans, and the Germans swiftly counterattacked, encircled Mallius' legionaries, and massacred his men as well. However, Caepio did not want Mallius to get the credit for defeating the Germanic threat, so he launched his own attack on the Cimbri camp. Places by cover : Works (2) Titles: Order: Asterix and Caesar's Gift by Ren Goscinny not in. King Boiorix of the Cimbri attempted to negotiate with Mallius, asking that his tribe be allowed to migrate into Hispania. It was a plan carved in stone and comes from the city of Orange (Arausio) in. Caepio only followed Mallius across the river in response to a Senatorial order, but he insisted on having a separate camp. The art of making scaled maps and plans seems to have vanished with the. In 105 BC, the 80,000-strong Roman army arrived in Gallia Narbonensis and encamped outside the town of Arausio on the Rhone. Arausio, Aurenja, Orange, Oranz, Oranzas, Oranzh, Oranas, ao lang ri, awranzh wwklwz, awrnj wwklwz, olangju, oranju. Caepio, descended from one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, resented having to take orders from a commoner, causing division between the two men. As Rome's greatest general Gaius Marius was fighting the Jugurthine War in North Africa, command of the army was given to the commoner Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, while the patrician Quintus Servilius Caepio was made his second-in-command. Two Roman armies led by Quintus Servilius Caepio and Gnaeus Mallius Maximus were crushed by a much larger Germanic army of Cimbri and Teutons in present-day southern France in Rome's worst defeat since the Battle of Cannae during the Punic Wars.įollowing the disastrous Battle of Burdigala in 107 BC, the Roman Senate became aware of the threat of the Germanic Cimbri and Teutons and prepared an army of 80,000 troops to face them in battle. The Battle of Arausio was fought on 6 October 105 BC during the Cimbrian War.

Arausio map