Anderitum

Anderitum Postea Gabali is the capital of the people of the Gabales (corresponding to the current areas of the Aubrac and the Gévaudan but concentrated on the department of the Lozere). This site became with the passing of years the village of Javols.

Toponymy: Anderitum contains the Celtic root rito meaning: rivet or ford.

Anderitum was a big step before passing to the people of the Rutènes based to Segodunum - Rodez via Adsilanum based on the Aubrac or at the entry of the valley of the Batch. By taking the distance between two Roman sites of the Gabale area: Lanuéjols and Javols connected by the same road, one obtains 46km is 20,7 miles Gallic. One can thus project some possible possible ways for the Andéritum section - AD-Silanum, then Segodunum, estimated at XVIII miles Gallic, is 40km

Jules César: the War of Gaules episode 7.75

the army of help: 35.000 Gabales join Alésia:

… While these things occurred in front of Alésia, the principal ones of Gaulle, joined together in assembly, had solved, not to call with the weapons all those which were in a position to carry them, like wanted it Vercingétorix, but to require each people a certain number of men; they feared, in the confusion of a so great multitude, to be able neither to discipline it, neither to recognize itself, nor to nourish itself. It was regulated that the various states would provide, knowledge (2) Héduens, with their customers Ségusiaves, Ambivarétes, Aulerques Brannovices, Blannovii, thirty-five thousand men; Arvernes with the people of their spring, such as Eleutètes, Cadurques, Gabales, and Vellavii, a similar number; (3) Sénons, Séquanes, Bituriges, Santons, Rutènes, Carnutes, each one twelve thousand //…

Roman measurements:

the inch: 0,0185 m

palm: 0,0736 m (4 fingers)

foot: 0,2944 m (4 palms)

palmipes : 0,3680 m (20 fingers)

bent: 0,4416 m (1 foot + 2 palms)

the grodus (not simple = 2 feet + 2 palms): 0,736 m

passus (not doubles = 5 feet): 1,472 m

milia passuum (thousand = 1000 pas): 1472 m

Old bibliography

Chart of Anderitum Gabalorum (Mimate-Mende) in Uxellodunum

For better including/understanding the looping of the area by César lira book VIII of the war of the gaules of Hirtius delivers VIII

Some charts

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