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Nemausus in your article derives from NILE.

The contemporary symbol shield of Nîmes, a crocodile chained to a palm tree with the inscription 'COLNEM' or short version of 'Colonia Nemausus', is a reference to the colony of legion veterans from Caesar's Nile campaigns. At the end of fifteen years of soldieering, the veterans were given plots of land to cultivate on the plain of Nîmes.

If you go to the 'Jardins de la Fontaine' in the center of Nîmes, you can clamber up its watchtower that oversees the plain...The French Foreign Legion has one of its regiment, the 2e Régiment Etranger d'Infanterie, sited near the town center in a Napoleonic barracks since 1983...

New articles needed?

The Arena is definitely worth an article of its own, possibly also Tour Magne. Anyone able to do it? If not, I will try but it may take some time. Emeraude 09:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NImes France

IT IS PRETTY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.159.6.98 (talk) 17:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Illustration of Pont du Gard

I have problems with including am image of a monument that is actually located 20 kilometres away. It gives the impression to a user that it is visitable on foot, when in reality it is 0ne/two exits on the Autoroute (exit 23) Remoulin. This is not helped by using an image that does not have a geotag. Surely the amphitheatre is a better image to show the roman settlement.

There is a Commons category

note the spelling i-circumflex where the images can be found. (I'll try to add geotags).

I have a further problem- that the name suggests that Nîmes is on the Gard/Gardons where of course it is lacking a major river. ClemRutter (talk) 11:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe. But potential visitors will recognise the aqueduct immediately and then associate it with Nimes. If you have a better image then use it! Peterlewis (talk) 11:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have geotagged 14+ images from Category:Pont du Gard- they are all rather similar- the clue to location is the shadow, and the missing bit on the the third storey where one used to access the water conduit- this is on the north west bank. However the Pont du Gard is not in Nîmes, it is between Remoulins and Uzès. ClemRutter (talk) 14:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image

Not an expert on images, but I think the map is wrong. Anon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.40.105 (talk) 05:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Standards of Notability, Nimes in Popular Culture, Volkerball, etc.

I'm taking out the reference to a rock-group's DVD in the Sights section. Somehow, in the thousands of years of history of this town and its monuments, it seems really inappropriate and non-notable. Many of the Roman amphitheaters in Provence have lots of concerts and cultural events in them every summer. If we start adding them to the descriptions of these monuments, we will trivialize the whole project. Jjshapiro (talk) 19:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

pronunciation

there should be an IPA pronunciation of the city's name at the beginning of the article... I don't speak French or i'd do it myself 128.255.5.119 (talk) 18:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File Format Problem

This article refuses to load in FireFox 3.0.3. Got the following error:
File Not Found
Firefox can't find the file at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimes.
It loads fine in Internet Explorer 7. MacMcF (talk) 21:25, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth to Thirteenth Centuries

The first sentence of this section reads, "After the Gallo-Roman period, in the days of invasion and decadence, the Christian Church, already established in Gaul since the 1st century AD, appeared be the last refuge open to civilization. Remarkably organized and directed by men of great worth, it took an increasingly important place in the march of time." Who were these men, and why were they "of great worth"?? What was so remarkable about their organizational abilities? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lily20 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Water supply

Curious what replaced the aqueduct and when. -- Beland (talk) 17:26, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of Nîmes

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 18:31, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Sport Section

The section on sports is very badly written, and isn't properly sited. This section in the French wikipedia is much better https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AEmes#Sports , so clearly there's some lazy/bad translation going on. I've never edited wikipedia and this is my first post on a talk page, so I'm suggesting that someone who's a better French speaker than me (and is more experienced in wikipedia related matters) translates and expands the section on sports, and provides additional sources. Bonne chance to whoever embarks on that :)

Nimes is a Phoenician city predating Roman Era or possibly coexisting with Roman rule

please do NOT undo addition to the intro supplementing your Euro Aryan centric view of the Roman Empire and its contributions to Nimes. If you convince the editors of Wikipedia, List of Phoenician Cities, which includes Nimes as a Phoenician CITY, if you convince the editors of the page List of Phoenician Cities to remove Nimes from their list, then you have an accurate encyclopedic summary of the origins of the city. Otherwise, your edit ignores other historical references and the page ALREADY approved by Wikipedia that stipulated Nimes is Phoenician in origins. PLEASE DO NOT UNDO UNLESS YOU RESOLVE THE CONFLICT WITH THE REFERENCED WIKIPEDIA PAGE (LIST OF PHOENICIAN CITIES). 2603:8000:5903:A7D5:B870:98C5:4311:C627 (talk) 23:47, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jpgordon, I checked the English article of Nimes because I put Nimes in the Hebrew Phoenician cities template a long time ago with no source, and I saw the English template is goen from this article. I found the source, and though very old (about 150 years old or more), it states: "For the purpose of extending and securing their commercial expeditions, the Phoenicians founded colonies in several parts of Gaul, and to them is attributed the earliest origin of Nemauesus (Nimes), and of Alesia, near Semur.". Should I add it to the article? פעמי-עליון (talk) 16:35, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to me there should be at least some other source for such an obvious thing. François Guizot is certainly a well-respected historian. But, as the title indicates, this is a popular history, with no footnotes or references; I'd be a lot happier to see a more scholarly reference. I wonder if Guizot's 31 volume history of France would have better sourcing? I notice that fr:Liste des cités et colonies phéniciennes et puniques makes no mention of Nimes, and fr:Nîmes makes no mention of Phoenicia. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 22:05, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

jpgordon, I agree this argument is very odd; I couldn't find it in any other source, and if Guizot referred by "Alesia" to Alesia, so far from the Mediterranean, it seems even stranger. Maybe we should just mantion "François Guizot attributed the earliest origin of Nîmes to the Phoenician" without the Phoenician colonies category and template. פעמי-עליון (talk) 10:02, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since we haven't been able to find it in any other source, I suggest omitting it. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:38, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Understandable. פעמי-עליון (talk) 18:38, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tour Magne is missing in article

It seems weird to me that one of the most notable landmarks of Nimes, the (original Celtic but rebuild by the Romans) Tour Magne is not mentioned in this article, and I couldn't even find anything about it on Wikipedia, except for some painting it is on. Codiv (talk) 10:15, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]