Gaul
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Gauls
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an ancient region in W Europe, including the modern areas of N Italy, France, Belgium, and the S Netherlands: consisted of two main divisions, one part S of the Alps Cisalpine Gaul and another part N of the Alps Transalpine Gaul.
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Latin Gallia. a province of the ancient Roman Empire, including the territory corresponding to modern France, Belgium, the S Netherlands, Switzerland, N Italy, and Germany W of the Rhine.
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an inhabitant of the ancient region of Gaul.
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a native or inhabitant of France.
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Latin name: Gallia. an ancient region of W Europe corresponding to N Italy, France, Belgium, part of Germany, and the S Netherlands: divided into Cisalpine Gaul, which became a Roman province before 100 bc , and Transalpine Gaul, which was conquered by Julius Caesar (58–51 bc )
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a native of ancient Gaul
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a Frenchman
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This earned Agrippa the gratitude of his friend’s great-uncle, Julius Caesar, the conqueror of Gaul and dictator of Rome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The name gallium comes from Gaul, the ancient Latin name for France, honoring the nationality of its discoverer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Sean Gaul, Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet member for children and young people said there was a "national crisis" over Send provision.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
As Ms. Gaul shows through wide-ranging detective work, Egyptian farmers were obliged to rely on artificial fertilizers and year-round irrigation after successive efforts to dam the Nile eventually shut down the river’s age-old fertilization cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Octavian would govern the west, including the parts of Gaul that had been under Mark Antony’s control.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
Gauls constructed villas with Roman features such as tiled roofing, stone masonry, and peristyle or columned courtyards.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of wild boars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
“There were contradictions between these classes—sometimes we joked that we didn’t know if our ancestors were the Gauls or the pharaohs!”
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
“Just ask the French football team that just won the World Cup. … Not all of those folks looked like Gauls to me. But they’re French! They’re French,” Mr. Obama said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
Galatian, ga-lā′shi-an, adj. pertaining to Galatia in Asia Minor—colonised by Gauls in the 3d century B.C.—n. a native of Galatia.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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