Transalpine Gaul

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noun

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

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Transalpine Gaul

The cherries you introduced from Pontus are now growing in Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul; and the largest and best in the world, perhaps, are upon the more sterile side of Lake Larius.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Toward the close of the second century B.C. the Romans made their first settlements in Transalpine Gaul, in the southeastern part.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Book xi. treated of the wars in Spain and Transalpine Gaul, and contained criticisms and anecdotes of various public men.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

He shows that the reconciliation could not have taken place in the winter of 54-3, as Caesar was absent in Transalpine Gaul.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

On his way to Transalpine Gaul Antony had met with Lepidus, whom the Senate had summoned from Spain to the assistance of Decimus Brutus.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly