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plural oppida
A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture. quotations examples
‘Mount Ceasar’ was a major oppidum of the Bellovaci tribe and almost certainly the tribal capital: its geographical relationship to the nearby Roman capital of Beauvais is typical of a post-conquest tribal resettlement.
2013, Graham Robb, The Ancient Paths, Picador, published 2014, page 76