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Alesia
Alesia, now Alise, Cote d'Or, France, was in Roman times a strong city, the capital of the Mandubii, who called it Urbium Mater. Vercingetorix was besieged here in 52 B.C. The town was utterly destroyed by the Normans a.d. 864.