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The city was situated west of the confluence of the Rhone and Saone, on the Fourviere heights.
After the founding of the city it soon became the centre for much of Roman Gaul and Germany. In 10 BC the future Emperor Claudius was born there. The imperial mint established a branch in the city and its large and cosmopolitan population made it the commercial and financial heart of the provinces. In 177 its Christian communinity suffered one of the earliest persucations.
After 250 Roman attention shifted to the Rhine frontier and Lugdunum lost its prominence to Trier. However, after the demise of the Roman Empire the city became the centre of the BurgundianBurgundian is either of the following; An extinct language of the Germanic language group spoken by the Burgundians. It was a living language in the 5th century AD in southeast Gaul. An Oil language known as Bourguignon-Morvandiau spoken in the region of kingdom.