Catalauni

Aëtius defeated the Huns in the Battle of Châlons (actually the campi Catalauni near Troyes).

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The name is derived either from the compound Gath-Alania, referring to the occupation of that region by the Goths and Alans, or from Gothaland, or from Catalanos, supposed to have been the name of an indigenous people identical with Ptolemy's Catalauni, or, according to others again, from Otger Catalo, a hero of the Eastern

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

[160] Cabillonum is Châlons-sur-Soane, in Burgundy; Catalauni is

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

Allemanni; defeats a third army in the country of the Catalauni, the enemy losing six thousand killed and four thousand wounded.

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

The preservation of Orleans might easily be turned into a miracle, obtained and foretold by the holy bishop.] [Footnote 40: The common editions read xcm but there is some authority of manuscripts (and almost any authority is sufficient) for the more reasonable number of xvm.] [Footnote 41: Chalons, or Duro-Catalaunum, afterwards Catalauni, had formerly made a part of the territory of Rheims from whence it is distant only twenty-seven miles.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

The preservation of Orleans might easily be turned into a miracle, obtained and foretold by the holy bishop.] 40 The common editions read xcm but there is some authority of manuscripts (and almost any authority is sufficient) for the more reasonable number of xvm.] 41 Chalons, or Duro-Catalaunum, afterwards Catalauni, had formerly made a part of the territory of

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