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  Gaul - MSN Encarta
It was bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Pyrenees Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, on the north by the English Channel, and on the east by the Alps and the Rhine.
Gallia Cisalpina, or “Gaul this side of the Alps” as viewed from Rome, was also called Gallia Citerior, or Hither Gaul, to distinguish it from Gallia Ulterior, or Farther Gaul, better known as Gallia Transalpina, or “Gaul across the Alps”.
Many illustrious Romans were born in the territory of Gallia Cisalpina, including the poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Catullus, the historian Livy, and the statesmen and writers Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.
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 Gaul
Gallia (in English Gaul) is the Roman name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine.
The area was subsequently governed as a number of provinces, the principal ones being Gallia Narbonensis[?], Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Aquitania[?] and Gallia Belgica[?].
On December 31, 406 the Vandals, Alans and Suebians crossed the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
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 Cenomani - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
CENOMANI, a branch of the Aulerci in Gallia Celtica, whose territory corresponded generally to Maine in the modern department of Sarthe.
Under Augustus they formed a civitas stipendiaria of Gallia Lugdunensis, and in the 4th century part of Gallia Lugdunensis iii.
The orthography and the quantity of the penultimate vowel of Cenomani have given rise to discussion.
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 Gaul
Gaul (Latin Gallia), ancient Roman designation of that portion of western Europe which is substantially identical with France, although extending beyond the boundaries of the modern country.
It was bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Pyrenees Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, on the north by the English Channel, and on the east by the Alps and the Rhine River.
The territory between the Alps and the Pyrenees became a Roman province known as Gallia Provincia, and the city of Narbo (Narbonne) on the southern coast was made the capital.
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 Gaul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gallia (in English Gaul) is the Roman name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river.
But the Gauls were widespread in Europe by Roman times, speaking Celtic languages that had diverged into two groups.
After coming under increasing pressure from the tribes of Germany from the middle of the 3rd century AD, Roman rule in Gaul ended with the defeat of the Roman governor Syagrius by the Franks in AD Gallo-Roman continuity
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 Gallia - Province of the Roman Empire
The Roman colony of Narbo Martius (Narbonne) was founded on the coast in 118, and the southern province became known as Gallia Narbonensis.
An invasion by Germanic Cimbri and Teutones was defeated by Gaius Marius in 102, but 50 years later a new wave of invasions into Gaul, by the Helvetii from Switzerland and the Suevi from Germany, triggered Roman conquest of the rest of Gaul by Julius Caesar in 58-50 BCE.
The country was divided into four provinces: Narbonensis, Aquitania to the west and south of the Loire, Celtica (or Lugdunensis) in central France between the Loire and the Seine, and Belgica in the north and east.
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 PLINY THE ELDER
From the Scaldis to the Sequana it is Belgic Gaul; from the Sequana to the Garumna it is Celtic Gaul or Lugdunensis ; and from the Garumna to the promontory of the Pyrenæan range it is Aquitanian Gaul, formerly called Aremorica.
Agrippa makes the entire length of the coast of Gaul to be 1800 miles, measured from the Rhine to the Pyrenees: and its length, from the ocean to the mountains of Gebenna and Jura, excluding there from Gallia Narbonensis, he computes at 420 miles, the breadth being 318.
The nations of Germany which dwell in this province, near the sources of the Rhine, are the Nemetes, the Triboc, and the Vangiones; nearer again, the Ubii, the Colony of Agrippina, the Cugerni, the Batavi, and the peoples whom we have already mentioned as dwelling on the islands of the Rhine.
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 The World of the Imperium Romanum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
All three — Aquitania, Lugdunensis, and Belgica — are imperial provinces.
But there is a fourth part, Gallia Narbonensis, along the southern coast, which Julius Caesar valued purely as a safe route to Spain.
In the historical Roman Empire, the province of Gaul (led by its governor Vindex and one Marice) revolted against the emperor Nero in the year 68.
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 Gaius Julius Vindex
Roman senator, governor of Gallia Lugdunensis, first to revolt against the emperor Nero.
Gaius Julius Vindex was a member of the former royal family of Aquitania, which had lost its throne when Julius Caesar had subdued their country.
His son was a senator too, and after his praetorship, he was appointed governor of Gallia Lugdunensis (Central France).
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Capital city of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis.
Now called Lyon, the city was the premier metropolis in Gaul (Gallia) and the most influential in the process of Romanization.
Like the cities in Gallia Narbonensis of Arausio, Arles and Nemausus (Nimes), Lugdunum was to serve as the model of Romanization.
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 Acidophilus Related Terms
In Latin, Gallia was also sometimes used as a general term for all Celtic peoples and their territories, such as all Britons, while the Germanic and Iberian provinces had a mixed, largely Celtic population.
The plural, Galliae in Latin, indicates that all of these are meant, not just Caesar's Gaul (several modern countries).
Gallia Lugdunensis IV in Belgium, Luxembourg, the parts of the Netherlands on the left bank (west) of the Rhine
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 FORVM's Classical Numismatics Discussion Board Gallery
In 43 BCE, the city of Lugdunum became an official Roman colony recognised by the Roman senate, founded by the governor of Gallia Comata (province of Comata), Lucius Munatius Plancus.
Drusus, the father of Claudius, (born 10 BCE) was stationed at Lyons, being in charge of Gallia Comata.
A bronze inscription found at Lyons records the speech given to the Roman Senate in 48 CE by Emperor Claudius, arguing for the acceptance of admission of senators from Gallia Comata.
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 The Celtic Tribes of Roman Gaul
Interestingly we have an indication that the Cenomani might once have been a far more powerful tribe that they were at the time of the Roman conquest, in that somewhere around 400 BCE they crossed into north-western Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) and they succeeded in driving the Etruscans southwards and occupied their territory.
One of the goddesses known to be sacred to the Vocontii is the bear goddess Andarta.
The Volcae were a large and powerful Gaulish tribe of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis who occupied the territory between the River Garonne, Cebenna mons and the River Rhône; which essentially corresponds to the boundaries of the ancient province of Languedoc.
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 swuklink: Searchable Time-Line     (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Birth in Forum Julii, Gallia Narbonensis (modern southern France) of the future Roman general and governor of the British province, Gnaeus Julius Agricola (d.
Although suppressed in 68, the rebellion was the start of a series of uprisings against the tyrannical emperor which resulted in Nero's deposition and suicide that summer, and the civil war of the Year of the Four Emperors
Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40-93), legate and commander of XX Valeria Victrix (71-), appointed governor of Gallia Aquitania (-78)and elevated to the status of patrician
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 Gallia Lugdunensis - Wikipedia
Provincia Gallia Lugdunensis în cadrul Imperiului Roman, în jurul anului 120 d.Hr.
Gallia Lugdunensis era o provincie a Imperiului Roman în Franţa de astăzi, parte a Galiei.
Sub Augustus, Gallia Lugdunensis a fost redusă în dimensiuni - partea dintre râul Loara şi Garonne a fost transferată Galliei Aquitania, iar părţile central-estice au fost cedate noii provincii Germania Superior.
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 Gallia Belgica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roman Province of Gallia Belgica in 58 BCE
The Roman Province of Gallia Belgica around 120 CE Gallia Belgica was a Roman province located in what is now the southern part of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, northeastern France, and western Germany.
During the 1st century CE, the provinces of Gaul were restructured.
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 Wikinfo | Senones
The Senones were a Celtic people of Gallia Celtica, who in Julius Caesars time inhabited the district which now includes the departments of Seine-et-Marne, Loiret and Yonne.
In later times they were included in Gallia Lugdunensis.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
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 Detail Page
According to Tacitus, Florus was descended from a noble family, and both he and Sacrovir probably held Roman citizenship.
Slowly Florus and his fellow conspirators prepared for war, but they underestimated both the loyalty of the Gallic levies to Rome and the capacity of the Romans to respond to a crisis.
The legate of Gallia Lugdunensis, Acilius Aviola, aided by Visellius Varro, the governor of Germania Inferior, quickly crushed the rebellion.
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 Amazon.com: "Gallia Lugdunensis": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
primatial authority that Gregory- VII in April 1079 vested in the archbishop of Lyons over the ancient region of Gallia Lugdunensis.168 Gregory seems to have been oblivious to the conflict of jurisdictions to which Archbishop Gebuin of Lyons referred in a...
Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen
inscribed on its right and left sides also.'' The front declares that Sollemnis "was the client of the governor of Gallia Lugdunensis, Claudius Paulinus, who sent him his salary for armed service in gold, with other presents of far greater value;...
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 French History to the Renaissance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The capital of the Gauls was Lyon, known as Lugdunum, in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis.
On December 31, 406 A.D., the Vandals, the Alans and the Suebians crossed the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
After coming under increasing pressure from the tribes of Germany from the middle of the 3rd century, Roman rule in Gaul ended with the defeat of the Roman governor, Syagrius, by the Franks in 486.
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 Hermetic Tribunals
The Tribunal of Rhine is split into the Tribunal of Germania in the west and the Tribunal of Transgermania in the east.
The Tribunal of Normandy is split into the tribunals Gallia Transalpina and Gallia Lugdunensis, where the latter one is joined with the eastern part of the former Greater Alps tribunal.
Gallia Cisalpina, Galliæ Cisalpinæ (1,f), ex Gallia Cisalpina, ex Tribunali Galliæ Cisalpinæ
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Despite the vast expanse of land between the two cities, Lugdunum was an important Roman city in Gaul.
It was the capital of the Roman providence Gallia Lugdunensis and was the cultural center of the west.
In twenty seven BC Emperor Augustus divided Gaul into three provinces and Lugdunum became the capital of Gallia Lugdunensis.
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 A Tour Guide
[To Tiberius Claudius] Paulinus, (once) commander of the Second Augustan Legion, (next) proconsul of the province of Gallia Narbonensis, (now) imperial governor of the province of Lugdunensis; by decree of the council of the community of the state of the Silures.
The inscription is dedicated to Tiberius Claudius Paulinus, who had been commandant of the Second Augustan Legion at Caerleon, a post he held during the reign of Caracalla (211-17).
Paulinus evidently performed some helpful act or made some gift to the Silures, and in return they honoured him with the erection of a statue and a record of his career.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Septimius Severus
The young senator held a praetorship, then served in Spain, commanded a legion in Syria and held the governorships of Gallia Lugdunensis (central France), Sicily and Upper Pannonia (easternmost Austria and western Hungary).
While in Gallia Lugdunensis in 187, the now-widowed future emperor married Julia Domna, a woman from a prominent family of the Syrian city of Emesa.
Two sons quickly arrived, eleven months apart: Bassianus (known to history as Caracalla) in April of the year 188, and Geta in March 189.
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 Gallia Lugdunensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Outside Lugdunnum was the Condate Altar, where representatives of the Three Gauls met to celebrate the cult of Rome and Augustus.
Its original extent was from the rivers Seine and Marne in the north-east, which formed the boundary with Gallia Belgica, to the river Garonne in the south-west, which formed the border with Gallia Aquitania.
The map shows the extent after these reductions.
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 Septimius Severus
Shortly after his eighteenth birthday Severus arrived in Rome and was appointed senator by Marcus Aurelius in about AD 175.
Thereafter he became governor of Gallia Lugdunensis and Sicily and, towards the end of Commodus' reign, he was made consul in AD 190.
Then as the plot thickened to kill Commodus, an African friend of Severus', the praetorian prefect Laetus, placed people he could rely on in key positions of the empire.
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 Vespasian
Shortly after,in 67 AD, Vespasian was sent by Nero to quell the unrest in Judea.
During the year 68 AD numerous revolts by Galba and Vindex, the governor of Gallia Lugdunensis brought the reign of Nero down.
These revolts resulted in the suicide of the emperor and the ascension of Galba as Caesar and started the period known as the four emperors.
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