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Gaul (historical region) |
Note: Refers to the region inhabited by the ancient Gauls, comprising modern-day France and parts of Belgium, western Germany, and northern Italy. It was a powerful ancient country. Inhabited from ca. 600 BCE by Celtic Galli. French Gaul (the area of Gaul that is modern France) was later divided by Rome into four provinces: Narbonensis, Aquitania to the west and south of the Loire, Lugdunensis in central France between the Loire and the Seine, and Belgica in the north and east. |
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| Gaul (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Gaule (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Gallia (H,V,Latin-P,U,N)
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| Galliae (H,V)
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| Gallic (C,V)
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