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Alesia , hilltop town of Celtic and Roman Gaul, on the site of Alise-Sainte-Reine, near Dijon. It was held by Vercingetorix and his men (52 BC) when Caesar besieged it. Caesar prevented Vercingetorix' allies from raising the siege and starved out the town, thereby ending Gallic resistance to Rome.

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Alesia. Fortified settlement or oppidum of the Celts in eastern Gaul, in what is today Burgundy, according to Diodorus Siculus (1st cent. BC). It was founded by Hercules after his affair with the Gaulish princess Galata. Base of Vercingetorix's ill-fated resistance to Roman conquest in 52 BC.
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Ucuetis. Gaulish deity, usually seen with his consort Bergusia, as in the shrine at Alesia in eastern France (Burgundy). In some representations he bears a hammer, suggesting that he may be a divine patron of craftsmen.
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