Coordinates: 44°33′57″N 6°29′46″E / 44.5658333333°N 6.49611111111°E / 44.5658333333; 6.49611111111
Embrun (Latin: Ebrodunum, Ebrudunum[1], and Eburodunum[1]) is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in south-eastern France.
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It is located between Gap and Briançon and at the eastern end of the largest artificial lake in Europe: the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.
The town of Embrun, Canada was named after Embrun in 1856.
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Ebrodunum (Ἐβρόδουνον in Greek language sources), was the name under which Embrun entered written history. There is some variation in the writing of the first part of the name. It is Epebrodunum in Strabo's text, but later translators corrected it. Strabo (iv.) says that from Tarasco to the borders of the Vocontii and the beginning of the ascent of the Alps, through the Druentia and Caballio, is 63 miles; and from thence to the other boundaries of the Vocontii, to the kingdom of Cottius (the Alpes Cottiae), to the village of Ebrodunum, 99 miles. Ebrodunum was in the country of the Caturiges, and just on the borders of the Vocontii, as it appears.
The position of Ebrodunum is easily determined by the itineraries and the name. Ptolemy (iii. 1) mentions Eborodunum as the city of the Caturiges, and no other. In the Jerusalem Itinerary Ebrodunum is called Mansio, like Caturiges (modern Chorges), which was also in the territory of the Caturiges. There are Roman remains at Chorges, and none are mentioned at Embrun, though it appears that the cathedral of Embrun is built on the site of a Roman temple, or that some of the materials of a temple were used for it.
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- ^ a b Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 17 and notes.
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