Vienne (city)

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Vienne

Vienne in the Isère Department¹ of France is located on the left (east) bank of the Rhône River, south of Lyon. As of 2010 it had 29 thousand residents.² The tallest buildings are the Résidence Bellevue and the Tour (Tower) Lorraine (both 16 stories).⁴ Prior to the Roman conquest, Vienne was the capital of the Allobroges⁵ tribe of Celts, who dwelt in the area south of Lake Léman/ Genève, and along the left bank of the Rhône from Genève, and through Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Isère and Rhône departments, and perhaps northern Drôme Department. The Roman conquerors called it Vienna.

Name	Year	Population	Political entity
⁵	200 BCE	³	Allobroges tribe⁵
Vienna	361 CE	45,000³	Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs (Roman Empire)
Vienna	2010 CE	29,000²	République de France

External references

Roman pyramid, Vienne, Isere

Historical maps

map showing part of the area held by the Allobroges tribe, 200 BCE

map showing part of the Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs (Roman Empire), 100 CE

map showing part of the Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs (Roman Empire), 361 CE

map showing part of the Regnum Burgundiae (Kingdom of Burgundy), 500 CE

map showing part of the Francia (France), 622 and 800 CE

map showing part of the Regnum Provincia (Cisjurane Burgundy), 900 CE

map showing part of Arelat, 1000 CE

map showing part of Regnvm Tevtonicvm (the Holy Roman Empire), 1100 CE

map showing part of Imperivm Romanvm Sacrvm (the Holy Roman Empire), 1200 CE

map showing the Archidioecesis of Vienna (Archbishopric of Lyon) and part of the Royaume de France, 1300 CE

map showing part of the Royaume de France, 1400 - 1700 CE

map showing part of the République de France, 1800 - 2000 CE

map showing part of the République de France, and part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. Rhône-Alpes Region.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/5/2015.
3. Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 200 BCE it was smaller than Amasia, which was smaller than Madurai, which was smaller than دمشق (Dimashq or Damascus), which was smaller than both Srinagar and Kaifeng, which were smaller than Trichinopoly, which was smaller than Messina, which had 35 thousand residents; it was larger than Όλβία Ποντική (Ólbía Pontiké), which had 30 thousand residents. In both 200 BCE and 361 CE it was the largest city in what is now France.
4. Emporis.com, accessed 3/3/2015.
5. I do not know what the Allobroges called themselves, nor what they called their capital at Vienne.