Road station
Gennava
Genf · Geneva · Genève
Gennava is Genava, today Geneva in Switzerland, where the Rhône leaves the lake. Caesar calls it the last town of the Allobroges and the nearest to the Helvetii, joined to their land by a bridge, which he ordered to be broken down. For centuries afterwards it was only a village belonging to Vienne; it received a wall and a bishop in late antiquity. In 443 the Roman general Aëtius settled the Burgundians in the region, and their kings at times resided at Geneva. The name has been explained as mouth, like Ostia, and the map spells it with a double n.