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  Gaul - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The only serious attempt to rebel politically against Rome was the uprising of Postumus (AD 257), but Gallo-Roman civilization was too strong to fall before anything but the Germans of the 5th and 6th cent.
A landed aristocracy grew up, employing the laborers, who made up the principal part of the population.
The influence of Christianity and the ravages of Germanic invaders forwarded the local organization around the cities.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/gaul.asp   (614 words)

  
 BB News No. 122 dtd. October 31, 2002
There were two main Germanic migrations to Russia in the modern period (before that it's anybody's guess)-one to Galicia (Galizien ceded to Austria in 1772) under Empress Maria Theresia starting about 1774.
Burgenland is 84% Germanic and has a history of Germanic colonization dating back to the 11th century.
It may be a phonetic corruption of "Platt Deutsch" or peasant (plow-rural-farm) German-the German of Bavaria and Swabia.
www.rootsweb.com /~autbur/nl1220.htm   (8159 words)

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