Chaux-des-Crotenay () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.INSEE commune file
Population
Battle of Alesia
The siege of Alesia was the last major battle between the Gauls under Vercingetorix and the Romans under Julius Caesar. Danielle Porte, a professor at the Sorbonne, has argued for an alternative theory that a site in Chaux-des-Crotenay better fits the historical description. However, the consensus of the scientific community is that the siege of Alesia happened in what is today the commune of Alise-Sainte-Reine, based on a considerable amount of archaeological and historical research.Paul Bidwell, M. Reddé (dir.) & alii, « Fouilles et recherches franco-allemandes sur les travaux militaires romains autour du mont Auxois (1991-1997) », Mémoire de l'Académie des inscriptions, 2 vol., Paris, 2001 (Britannia, 2005, 36, p. 503-504): ″There has for long seemed to have been a problem in matching Caesar topographical description with the landscape of Alesia […] Reddé's careful comparison of the description with the landscape shows that there are no real contradiction."
See also Communes of the Jura department
References
External links Alesia, the Jura Hypothesis