bmv_347853 - RODEZ (RVTENIS CIVITAS) - Aveyron Triens, ASPASIAS monétaire, en or pâle

RODEZ (RUTENIS CIVITAS) - Aveyron

(7th-8th centuries)

Rodez is a two-thousand-year-old city: its existence dates back to the 5th century BC. J.-C., when a Celtic people from central Europe, the Rutenes, stopped in the south of Auvergne to found one of these oppida characteristic of the Gallic civilization, that of Segodunum. Many heritage elements testify to the Romanization of Segodunum. While Christianity spread in the wake of the evangelizing action of Saint Amans, the city did not escape the troubles of the barbaric times which followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Rodez was successively occupied by the Visigoths, the Franks, the armies of the Dukes of Aquitaine and the Counts of Toulouse, as well as by the Moors, who invested it in 725 and brought down the ancient church..