ancient town situated on Mont Auxois, above the present-day village of Alise-Sainte-Reine in the département of Côte d'Or, France. Alesia is famous as the site of the siege and capture of Vercingetorix by Julius Caesar (Caesar, Julius) in 52 BC that ended Gallic resistance to Caesar. The Gallic town was succeeded on the same site by a flourishing Gallo-Roman town.