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Transalpine Gaul

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noun

  1. (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul northwest of the Alps

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Antonius, being defeated, fled to Lepidus, the governor of Transalpine Gaul.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

The Transalpine Gaul of Caesar was the country included between the Rhine, the ocean, the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, and the Alps.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

Transalpine Gaul was substantially what is now France.

From History of Julius Caesar by Abbott, Jacob

This done he set himself to training his new men, encamped in Transalpine Gaul, in readiness to meet the foe.

From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Hamilton, Mary Agnes

Other writers argue that we do not find Druids existing in the Danube region, in Cisalpine territory, nor in Transalpine Gaul, "outside the limits of the region occupied by the Celtæ."

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.

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