Editing Clermont-Ferrand (section)

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[[File:Clermont-Ferrand - Mur des Sarrasins 20220528-01.jpg|thumb|left|Only remaining Gallo-Roman wall of the Vasso Galate temple, Clermont-Ferrand.]]
Clermont-Ferrand's first name was ''Augusto[[nemeton|nemetum]]'', Latin for "[[sanctuary]] for [[Augustus]]", or ''Civitas Arvernorum'' (town of the Arverni people).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.augustonemetum.fr/News/Info-74/La-fondation.html |website=augustonemetum.fr |language=French |access-date=12 July 2023 |first=Hélène |last=Dartevelle  |title=La fondation |date=2023 |quote=Traditionnellement, la ville aurait été créée lors de la fondation de la voie d'Agrippa Lyon/Saintes reliant la capitale des Gaules (Lyon) à Saintes, capitale de l'Aquitaine. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604095206/http://www.augustonemetum.fr/News/Info-74/La-fondation.html |archive-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> It originated on the central knoll where the cathedral is situated today, overlooking the capital of {{ill|Gaulish Arvernis|fr|Arvernis}}. The fortified castle of Clarus Mons gave its name to the whole town in 848, to which the small episcopal town of [[Montferrand (district of Clermont-Ferrand)|Montferrand]] was attached in 1731, together taking the name of Clermont-Ferrand. The amalgamation of the two towns was decreed by [[Louis XIII]] and confirmed by [[Louis XV]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clermont-ferrand.fr/History.html |title=History – Ville de Clermont-Ferrand |language=fr |publisher=Clermont-ferrand.fr |access-date=12 March 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723063002/http://www.clermont-ferrand.fr/History.html |archive-date=23 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The old part of Clermont is delimited by the route of the ramparts as they existed at the end of the Middle Ages.