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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gaul gôl , Lat. Gallia, ancient designation for the land S and W of the Rhine, W of the Alps, and N of the Pyrenees. The name was extended by the Romans to include Italy from Lucca and Rimini northwards, excluding Liguria. This extension of the name is derived from its settlers of the 4th and 3d cent. BC—invading Celts, who were called Gauls by the Romans. Their cousins in Gaul proper (modern France) probably had been there since 600 BC, for the Greeks of Massilia (Marseilles) knew them. The Gaul in Italy was called Cisalpine Gaul [Cisalpine, from Lat.=on this side the Alps],... Read more

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Gaul An ancient region of Europe, corresponding to modern France, Belgium, the south Netherlands...area south of the Alps was conquered in 222 BC by the Romans, who called it Cisalpine Gaul. The area north of the Alps, known to the Romans as Transalpine Gaul, was taken by Julius Caesar between 58 and 51 BC, ... Read more

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Gaul [L Gallia ]. English name for the land in antiquity populated...language of the Celts extended across the Alps into Cisalpine Gaul [L Gallia Cisalpina ], what is today northern Italy down...more remote links to Old Irish. Most of what we know about Gaul derives from the sometimes prejudiced views of ... Read more

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