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7: The Three Transformations Of Roman Gaul

The Fall of Rome Podcast

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Around the year 475, Sedonius Apollonaris wrote a letter to the Bishop of Reams. The journey from Claremont to Reams was some 380 miles in each direction. Even with a good horse at your disposal, that's a journey of at least ten days in each way. Patrick Weimann: In 475, Gaul was a fragmented patchwork of territories controlled by competing powers and interests.

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