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The founding of Lugdunum — The founding of the Roman colony in 43 BC by Munatius Plancus
The Senate gave a governor the religious, civil and military powers to found a colony, and the ceremony traced the two axes around which everything else was built. A single ancient text reports its reasons, written two and a half centuries later. (Editorial synthesis)
The founding of Lugdunum took place in Lugdunum. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The founding of Lugdunum ended in a Roman colony at the confluence, which would become the capital of the Gauls. (source: Larousse)
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