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Thus a few Gallic legions began to resettle the current Romagna, depopulated by the previous civil revolt of Marius and Sulla.

But let's return to Caesar's journey towards Cesena.

Caesar and the commander Hortensius, after having crossed the Via Decimana, came to Curva Caes Arena,²⁷ where many men who had always been loyal to the populares²⁸ under his Uncle Gaius Marius were awaiting him.

Tens of years earlier in Romagna, the populares, headed by Caesar's uncle, Gaius Marius, were grievously defeated militarily by the optimates under Sulla between Forlì and Faenza that had swept the countryside clean of the population.

Caesar was rebuilding and reorganizing many things.

There in that land he had promised and given away much land and many public offices to his veterans and he was embellishing and Romanizing much of Romagna with taxes on land and products.

Government buildings, theatres, gladiator barracks, buildings and streets, grew to guarantee political loyalty, military stability and logistics in the area.