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Encyclopedia Britannica



GAUL

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 532 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GAUL . 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. modern France and Belgium with parts of Holland, Germany and Switzerland. The Greek form of Gallia was raxaria, but
Galatia
  in Latin denoted another Celtic region in central
Asia
 
Minor
 , sometimes styled Gallograecia.
(a) Gallia Cisalpina was mainly conquered by Rome by 222 B.c.; later it adopted Roman civilization; about 42 B.C. it was united with Italy and its subsequent history is merged in that of the peninsula. Its
chief
  distinctions are that during the later Republic and earlier Empire it yielded excellent soldiers, and thus much aided the success of Caesar against Pompey and of Octavian against Antony, and that it gave Rome the poet Virgil (by origin a
Celt
 ) ,the historian Livy, the lyrist Catullus, Cornelius Nepos, the elder and the younger Pliny and other distinguished writers?.
( b) Gaul proper first enters ancient history when the Greek colony of Massilia was founded (?600 B.C.). Roman armies began to enter it about 218 B.C. In 121 B.C. the
coast
  from
1 When Cisalpine Gaul became completely Romanized, it was often known as " Gallia Togata," while the Province was distinguished as " Gallia Bracata " (bracae, incorrectly braccae, " trousers "), from the
long
  trousers worn by the inhabitants, and the rest of Gaul as " Gallia Comata," from the inhabitants wearing their
hair
 
long
 .


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