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 Gaul - ninemsn 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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 Hotel Gallia
Gallia Aquitania, in ancient geography, was a province of the Roman Empire, located in present-day southwest France and bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis.
The indigenous population of Gallia Belgica consisted of a mixture of Celtic and Germanic tribes, often described as the Belgae.
Gallia was discovered by the brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on August 7, 1875, but the credit for this discovery was given to Prosper.
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 Gallia Narbonensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France.
The area became a Roman province in 121 BC, originally under the name of Gallia Transalpina (Transalpine Gaul).
The province of Gallia Transalpina was later renamed Gallia Narbonensis, after its capital the Roman colony of Narbo Martius (Narbonne), which was founded on the coast in 118 BC.
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 Gaul - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By implication Caesar recognizes as a fourth division the province of Gallia Narbonensis.
The whole area, often collectively styled "Gallia Comata," often "Tres Provinciae," was divided into three provinces, each under a legatus pro praetore appointed by the emperor, with a common capital at Lugudunum (Lyons).
The three provinces were: Aquitania, reaching from the Pyrenees almost to the Loire; Lugudunensis, the land between Loire and Seine, reaching from Brittany in the west to Lyons in the south-east; and Belgica in the north.
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Originally called Gallia Transalpina; one of the four large provinces of Gaul (Gallia), along with Gallia Aquitania, Lugdunensis and Belgica.
The province was bordered by the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, the provinces of Tres Galliae, the Alps and the Rhine.
Gallia Narbonensis flowered both as an economic entity and as a unique transplant of Roman culture and lifestyle.
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 Gaul : search word
(''Gallia'' is also the Modern Greek name of France.) In English the word Gaul commonly refers to a Celtic inhabitant of that region in ancient times, but the Gauls were widespread in Europe by Roman times, speaking Celtic languages that had diverged into two groups.
The area conquered by Caesar was Gallia Comata: literally, "long-haired Gaul." The area was subsequently governed as a number of provinces, the principal ones being Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Aquitania and Gallia Belgica.
It is hard to see how it Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." [Footnote: the throne, his name would have been a perpetual encouragement to repeated promises and his oath of office, he was able to trample long exile, the adventurer made haste to declare exultation.
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 Everything about Francois Truffaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A mai Franciaország határai majdnem egybeesnek a történelmi Gallia (Alpokon túli) területeivel, amelyeket egykor Gallia Transalpina néven ismertek.
Gallia nagyon hamar megindult a romanizálódás útján, városiasodott, és már a korai császárkorban jelentős gazdasági potenciált képviselt, közben a kereszténység is elterjedőben volt.
Gallia keleti területein a burgundok, déli régiójában pedig a nyugati gótok alapítottak királyságot.
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Geographically, Gallia Cisalpina was surrounded by Gallia Narbonensis, the Alps, Raetia, Noricum and Illyricum to the west, north and east.
Gallia Cisalpina was originally the home of the Etruscans and other Italian peoples, most notably the Umbrians and Ligurians.
Henceforth, Gallia Cisalpina was a province under Roman control, but its tribes, such as the Taurini, Cenomani and Insubres, were not fully mastered for some years.
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 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars - Julius - Page 2
At first, it is true, by the bill of Vatinius he received only Gallia Cisalpina with the addition of Illyricum; but presently he was assigned Gallia Comata as well by the senate, since the members feared that even if they should refuse it, the people would give him this also.
Amid all these successes he met with adverse fortune but three times in all: in Britannia, where his fleet narrowly escaped destruction in a violent storm; in Gallia, when one of his legions was routed at Gergovia; and on the borders of Germania, when his lieutenants Titurius and Aurunculeius were ambushed and slain.
He further proposed a compromise to his opponents, that after giving up eight legions and Gallia Transalpina, he be allowed to keep two legions and Gallia Cisalpina, or at least one legion and Illyricum, until he was elected consul.
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the modern form of the Roman Gallia, the name of the two chief districts known to the Romans as inhabited by Celtic-speaking peoples, (a) Gallia Cisalpina (or Citerior, " Hither "), i.e.
north Italy between Alps and Apennines and (b) the far more important Gallia Transalpina (or Ulterior, " Further "), usually called Gallia (Gaul) simply, the land bounded by the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees, the Atlantic, the Rhine, i.e.
The Greek form of Gallia was raxaria, but Galatia in Latin denoted another Celtic region in central Asia Minor, sometimes styled Gallograecia.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=27454   (186 words)

  
 belgae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On the day the Roman general Gaius Iulius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC) managed to get command over Gallia Cisalpina and the border-provinces Illyricum and Gallia Transalpina for five years, war was a certainty.
After the defeat of the Helvetii, he was also asked to rid Gallia of Ariovistus and his Germanic hordes.
At the beginning of the first book of his Bellum Gallicum, Caesar says that of the tribes living in Gallia, the Belgians were farthest away from the civilization and culture of the Provincia.
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The Romans distinguished "Gallia Cisalpina" [Gaul on this side of the Alps, in northern Italy] from "Gallia Transalpina" [Gaul across the Alps, in France].
At the start of his COMMENTARIES, Caesar defined the boundaries of Gallia to coincide with the lands which he had actually occupied, although Caesar made clear that Galli were not one people at all, nor their land one country.
Gallia existed as an administrative division of the Roman Empire for five centuries with its capital at Lugdunum [modern Lyons].
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 Gallia Narbonensis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
That part of Gallia Narbonensis, which is washed by the inland sea (1) is called the province of the Gallias of Braccata borne the name having formerly (2).
Gallia Narbonensis Roman province of 120 AD Gallia Narbonensis is now Languedoc and province located in what was a Roman Provence in southern France...
Conquistata ed elevata a provincia la Gallia Transalpina (poi Narbonensis) nel 121 aC, per bisognerà attendere le conquiste di Cesare;...
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 Map - Southern Italy in the 3rd Century B.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And indeed geographically southeastern Molise is much less like mountainous Abruzzo and much more like the highlands of southwestern Puglia and northeastern Campania; and, as the 19th Century civil registers of Gambatesa show, inter-marriage among the peoples of the villages in this zone was very common, as was the seasonal migration of workers within it.
The administrative regions of Gallia Cispadana (VIII) and Gallia Transpadana (XI) were divided by the Po River,
Gallia meant "the land of the Gauls" (i.e.
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 Transalpine Gaul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Latin name for this province was Gallia Transalpina.
It became a Roman province in 121 BC.
Later it was renamed Gallia Narbonensis, after its capital the Roman colony of Narbo Martius (Narbonne), which was founded on the coast in 118 BC.
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 gallia transalpina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gallia transalpina e Gallia i romani indicavano Trova altre informazioni su Gallia...
Gallia Transalpina until the be fully Hannibal's defeat; pacified until and the rest of Cisalpine Gaul wouldn't arrival of Caesar in the mid 1st century BC.
era all'epoca transalpina e che a fare parte, sul piano della Gallia amministrativo, della provincia un vicus che continuava dipendeva, dal 31 aC,...
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Hence it was divided into Gaul on this side (the Roman side) of the Alps, or Gallia Cisalpina, and Gaul beyond the Alps, or Gallia Transalpina.
Latterly the former was regarded quite as part of Italy, and the name Gallia was restricted to Transalpine Gaul, or the country nearly corresponding to modern France.
Gallia Belgica, Belgic Gaul, in the north, extending to the Rhine.
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 Caesar
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.
It is meant to focus the minds of readers on the essential facts of the Gallic and German situation.
In Caesar’s time, this might mean either Cisalpine Gaul – Northern Italy – or the Roman ‘province’ of Gallia Transalpina, also called Narbonensis, Ulterior, and Bracata (‘where-they-wear-breeches’); or, more generally, the whole area where the Gauls lived – modern France, with part of the Low Countries, Switzerland, and Northern Italy besides.
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 Galia I. Historia. - CanalSocial - Enciclopedia GER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
El menor, Gallia transalpina, correspondía a la Italia septentrional, con el valle del Po como eje, y fue el primero que dominaron los romanos.
Los primeros conocimientos fidedignos acerca de la Gallia transalpina se tuvieron a través de los griegos (hacia el 600 a.
Pero la mayor parte de la Gallia transalpina entra dentro de la esfera romana por la acción de Julio César (v.), en los a.
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 Roman Provence - ProvenceBeyond
The indiginous population was transformed by the centuries of Roman occupation, including by the large numbers of Roman administrators and the colonies established for the retired Roman Legionaires.
Clovis the 1st [Kings, Merovingian] appeared as the king of the Franks, and in 486, he conquered the area and it became part of the kingdom of the Franks.
A province of Roman Gaul, a renamed version of Gallia Transalpina, created in 27 BC by Augustus.
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 1World2travel - [Dutch] België: Galliërs en andere voorouders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
De verovering van Gallië, in feite Gallia Transalpina, was in hoofdzaak het 'levenswerk' van ene Julius Caesar, die nadien ook nog de Kelten in Engeland zou inlijven in het Romeinse Rijk.
Er was Gallia Cssalpina (ook Gallia Citerior) en Transalpina (ook Gallia Ulterior).
In 27 voor onze jaartelling verdeelde keizer Augustus Gallië Transalpina in vier delen.
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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.
From the name they were likely Aquitanian, and probably forcibly incorporated in Gallia Transalpina.
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 GAUL - Online Information article about GAUL
Celtic-speaking peoples, (a) Gallia Cisalpina (or Citerior, " Hither "), i.e.
Apennines and (b) the far more important Gallia Transalpina (or Ulterior, " Further "), usually called Gallia (Gaul) simply, the See also:
Greek form of Gallia was raxaria, but See also:
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 Robin's Wiki | ArsMagica / NormandyTribunal
It was then proposed that the matter be delayed until the next session of Tribunal Gallia Transalpina and that Orbus de Ignis be summoned to attend this session to face the accusations.
At this point Foedus of Fudarus stated that this proposal was beneath the interest of the Tribunal Gallia Transalpina as-a-whole and that Ambrosius should not waste time with his personal business.
Isabel of Mont-Sainte-Genevieve proposed a pact to unite the covenants of Tribunal Gallia Transalpina in the pursuit of knowledge and put an end to petty conflicts.
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 Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul
In 232 the Tribune Gaius Flaminius proposed and passed an agrarian law, ceding land to Legionary veterans and poorer classes of citizens.
This land, won from the Gauls at the battle of Lake Vadimanus in 283 BC, represented the territory known as Gallia Cisalpina, or Gaul this side (Roman) of the Alps.
A majority of local tribes, (mainly the Insubres) as well as the Gaesatae from Gallia Transalpina (Gaul across the Alps), were eventually pushed to the point of open military resistance.
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These wars demonstrated the genius of Julius Caesar, the skills of the legions, the indomitable spirit of the Gauls and the damage that could be inflicted on cities, territories and entire populations in Rome's drive to world domination.
Marius, his uncle, had defeated the marauding tribes in the provinces of Gallia Cisalpina and Gallia Transalpina.
In another year, the entire region was pacified and given the new name of Gallia Comata.
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 Wikinfo | Roman assemblies
This can be seen in the conduct of the Jugurthine War, when the Senate passed a senatus consultum extending Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus's tenure as commander in chief, but the Council of the People passed a plebiscite appointing Gaius Marius in Metellus Numidicus's stead.
Although Julius Caesar was named proconsul of Gallia Cisalpina and Illyricum by senatus consultum, he was given Gallia Transalpina by plebiscite.
During his consulate in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla passed a series of leges Corneliae which radically altered the political structure of the Republic.
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 Gallia Transalpina e le sue successive divisioni. / Marzolla, Benedetto; Brue, Adrien Hubert, 1786-1832; Picquet, C. / ...
Short Title: Gallia Transalpina e le sue successive divisioni.
Includes inset maps of Paris, the Roman Empire, and of the campaigns and divisions of Gaul.
Full Title: Gallia Transalpina e le sue successive divisioni sotto l'Impero Romano, dalla conquista da Guilio-Cesare, sino al dominio de' Goti, Borgognoni e Franchi.
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