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=== Territory === [[File:Carte allobrogie.PNG|thumb|Territory of the Allobroges during the [[Roman period]] (dark green).]]The territory of the Allobroges, which is known as ''Allobrogia'',{{sfn|Bocquet|2009|p=28}} stretched between the [[Isère (river)|Isère]] and the [[Rhône]] rivers, the [[Lake Geneva|Lacus Lemannus]] (Lake Geneva) and the [[Alps]].{{sfn|Kruta|2000|p=404}}{{sfn|Lafond|2006}} By the mid-1st century BC, they also possessed a piece of land north of the Rhône river, between modern [[Lyon]] and [[Geneva]], whose later status remains uncertain.{{Sfn|Rivet|1988|p=310}} During the Roman period, the ''[[civitas]]'' ''Viennensium'' covered an area of around 13,000 km<sup>2</sup>, one of the largest in Gaul.{{sfn|Pelletier|1982|p=60}} The Allobroges lived east of the [[Segusiavi]] and the [[Vellavi]], south of the [[Ambarri]] and [[Sequani]], north of the [[Segovellauni]], [[Vertamocorii (Narbonensis)|Vertamocorii]], [[Vocontii]], [[Tricorii]], [[Ucennii]], [[Graioceli]] and [[Ceutrones]], and southwest of the [[Helvetii]] and [[Veragri]].<ref>{{harvnb|Talbert|2000}}, Map 17: Lugdunum, Map 18: Augustonemetum-Vindonissa.</ref>
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