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Corseul
Commune in Brittany, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Corseul (French pronunciation: [kɔʁsœl]; Breton: Kersaout; Gallo: Corsoeut) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.
The town was a major Roman town and contains Roman ruins. The town hall contains a small archaeological museum.[3]
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History
Corseul was called Fanum Martis ("Temple of Mars") in Latin and was the capital of the Gallo-Roman province of Coriosolites. It was founded in 10 BC.[4] In the 3rd and 4th centuries, like many other cities, Fanum Martis was renamed for its people, the Curiosolitae. This name change occurred as the Roman Empire weakened and paralleled a revival of the ancient Gallic gods in local religious sculptures and dedicatory inscriptions.[5]
Some 1.5 kilometres to the southeast, at Haut-Bécherel, stand the prominent remains of an extensive Roman temple sanctuary, built at the time of Nero and Vespasian.[6]
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Population
Inhabitants of Corseul are called coriosolites or curiosolites in French.
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