Editing Aedui (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Map of Eduens people-fr.svg|thumb|274x274px|Aedui core territory (in red) and confederation (in brown), with allies (in pink) and enemies (in grey).{{sfn|Goudineau|1993}}]]

=== Territory ===
The territory of the Aedui was situated between the [[Saône]] and [[Loire]] rivers, in a strategic position regarding trade routes. It included most of the modern [[Departments of France|départements]] of [[Saône-et-Loire]] and [[Nièvre]], the southwestern-part of [[Côte-d'Or]] between [[Beaune]] and [[Saulieu]], and the southern part of [[Yonne]] around [[Avallon]],{{Sfn|Barral|Guillaumet|Nouvel|2002|p=276}} corresponding to the Saône plains, the [[Morvan]] granitic massif, and the low [[Nivernais]] plateau, from east to west.{{Sfn|Barral|Guillaumet|Nouvel|2002|p=271}} They dwelled between the [[Arverni]] in the west, the [[Segusiavi]] and [[Ambarri]] in the south, the [[Sequani]] in the east, and the [[Lingones]] and [[Senones]] in the north.{{Sfn|Barral|Guillaumet|Nouvel|2002|p=273}}

=== Settlements ===
Three [[Oppidum|oppida]] are known from the end of the [[La Tène culture|La Tène]] period: Vieux-Dun ([[Dun-les-Places]]), Le Fou de Verdun ([[Lavault-de-Frétoy]]), and [[Bibracte]], which occupied a central position in the Aedian economic system.{{Sfn|Barral|Guillaumet|Nouvel|2002|p=|pp=272, 274}}

During the Roman period, Bibracte was abandoned for [[Augustodunum]] ('fortress of Augustus'; modern-day [[Autun]]).{{Sfn|Drinkwater|2016|p=}}

=== Ancient sources ===
The country of the Aedui is defined by reports of them in ancient writings. The upper [[Loire|Liger]] formed their western border,<ref>{{harvnb|Caesar|BG|loc=Book vii, Section 5}}.</ref> separating them from the [[Bituriges Cubi|Bituriges]]. The [[Saône|Arar]] formed their eastern border, separating them from the [[Sequani]].<ref>{{harvnb|Caesar|BG|loc=Book I, Section 12}}.</ref> The Sequani did not reside in the region of the confluence of the [[Doubs|Dubis]] and the Arar, and of the Arar into the [[Rhône|Rhodanus]], as Caesar says that the [[Helvetii]], traveling southward along the pass between the [[Jura Mountains]] and the Rhodanus, which belonged to the Sequani, plundered the territory of the Aedui.<ref>{{harvnb|Caesar|BG|loc=Book I, Section 11}}.</ref> These circumstances explain an apparent contradiction in [[Strabo]], who in one sentence says that the Aedui lived between the Arar and the Dubis, and in the next, that the Sequani lived across the Arar (eastward).<ref>{{harvnb|Strabo|Geography|loc=Book 4, Chapter 3, Section 2}}.</ref>