Narbonne

A city of France, in the department of the Aude, 32 miles east of Car cas sonne. The modern town of Narbonne occupies the site of the ancient Narbo Martius , a Roman colony founded in 118 B.C. After the first colonization of Narbo, many of the soldiers of Cæsar’s Tenth Legion were settled here, from whom the town derived the name of Decumanorum Coloni a . It was taken by the Visigoths in 462, by the Burgundians in 508, by the Franks in 531, by the Saracens in 719, and by the Moors in 779. Charles Martel defeated the Moors under its walls, but the town held out until it was taken by Pepin in 759. In 859 it fell to the arms of the North men.