With the perviously hostile territory cleared of any threat, the settlers that had trailed behind the military expedition could finally erect their new city. Lacking slightly in the size of their workforce, they were reluctant to tackle the challanging task of removing expanses of the vast southern jungle for farmland. Instead, they elected to lay their new foundations sea-side, at the foot of the western mountains. They named their settlement
Eblana.
Eblana, Shortly After Establishment in 350 BCE
Eblana is, of course, the bottom left settlement in the image above - west of Camulodunon and south across the water from Sparta.
Between the mountains and the jungle laid a band of plains, fair enough for farming. The grasslands nearest the city were especially well suited for corn growth, just like the farm back on the outskirts of Bibracte. A road through the plains connecting Vandal with Eblana was quickly constructed, eventually to be a route that fully traverses from the westernmost point in our empire to the easternmost, at Ratae.