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Map of Umbria and Picenum showing the location of the Ager Gallicus

The Ager Gallicus was the territory in northern Picenum that had been occupied by the Senone Gauls and was conquered by Rome[1] in 284 BC or 283 BC, either after the Battle of Arretium or the Battle of Lake Vadimon.

The territory corresponds to the portion of the modern Marche region lying north of the Esino river, on the coast Adriatic Sea.

  1. ^ Livy 5,33-55; Diodorus Siculus 14,113–117

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Ager Gallicus

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Ager Gallicus to Roman citizens, threatened the existing peace with Gauls such as the Boii who bordered the ager. Ostensibly, this land had been ager...

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Picenum

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Senones and annexed Picenum down to Ancona when it became the Ager Gallicus, part of the Ager publicus (Roman state land). In 268 BC the Romans defeated...

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Picentes

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Roman Republic the coastal part of northern Picenum was called the ager Gallicus. The origins of the Picentini date from the 9th c. BC as shown by archaeology...

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Battle of Arretium

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Insubres

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prisoners, but the envoys were killed. A Roman army was sent to the ager Gallicus, the name the Romans gave to an area on the Adriatic coast that had...

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Murus gallicus

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Wheeler. At Manching an earlier murus gallicus wall was rebuilt in the pfostenschlitzmauer style. The murus gallicus contrasts with other construction styles:...

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Lucius Accius

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scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. He was the son of a freedman and a freedwoman, probably from...

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Lucania et Bruttium Regio IV Samnium Regio V Picenum Regio VI Umbria et Ager Gallicus Regio VII Etruria Regio VIII Aemilia Regio IX Liguria Regio X Venetia...

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Senigallia

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the colony Sena Gallica there to control the region they called the Ager Gallicus. "Sena" is probably a corrupted form of "Senones" and "Gallica" (meaning...

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Regio VI Umbria

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Regio VI Umbria (also named Regio VI Umbria et Ager Gallicus) is the name for one of the 11 administrative regions into which the emperor Augustus divided...

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Romagna

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(Senigallia). The lands formerly inhabited by the Senones were known as ager Gallicus (Gallic plain) to the Romans. According to the Italian linguist Giacomo...

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Senones

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spanned from Forlì to Ancona and Terni, in Picenum or what was later the Ager Gallicus. They founded the town at Senigallia, which became their capital[citation...

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232 BC

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plebeians. The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome (the Ager Gallicus) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen...

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Umbri

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the opposite side of the river. According to the map of Regio Umbria and Ager Galliucus by Emperor Augustus , the major Umbrian city-states were: Terni...

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Via Flaminia

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under Augustus it had formed the sixth region of Italy called Umbria et Ager Gallicus), but which after Constantine was always administered with Picenum....

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Roman expansion in Italy

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Lucania et Bruttium Regio IV Samnium Regio V Picenum Regio VI Umbria et Ager Gallicus Regio VII Etruria Regio VIII Aemilia Regio IX Liguria Regio X Venetia...

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Samnite Wars

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a pitched battle. It can be assumed that this clash occurred in the ager Gallicus (the name the Romans gave to the area which had been conquered by the...

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Battle of the Allia

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"distressed and eager to move" because they had settled to a place (the ager Gallicus) that was too hot. They armed their younger men and sent them out to...

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Disease in Imperial Rome

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Alexandria alone dropped from 500,000 to 190,000 during the plague. Morbus Gallicus (Gallic disease), better known in modern times as syphilis, or the "French...

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Socii

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Paestum was established in 273. In the North, the Romans annexed the ager Gallicus, a large stretch of plain on the Adriatic coast from the Senones Gallic...

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Britomaris

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Publius Cornelius Dolabella (the consul for 283 BC) then devastated the ager Gallicus (the name the Romans gave to the land which had been conquered by the...

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230s BC

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plebeians. The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome (the Ager Gallicus) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen...

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Monte Rinaldo

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Rinaldo: a sacred landscape in the heart of Picenum, Picenum and the Ager Gallicus at the Dawn of the Roman Conquest Landscape Archaeology and Material...

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Pro Cluentio

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eldest son, M. Aurius, was in fact alive and living in servitude in the Ager Gallicus. Oppianicus arranged for the murder of Dinaea and sent an assassin to...

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