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The "Tropaeum Alpium" near modern day Monaco mentions no less than 45 tribes that the Romans defeated during their campaign to subjugate the Alps. But, seen through Roman eyes, what exactly made up a "tribe" – and why wasn't the monument built in Rome itself?

by /u/Ramihyn in /r/AskHistorians

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