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The Gauls, a Celtic people, spread west and south from the Rhine valley into what is now France and Italy from about 1200 BC. In the second century BC the Romans began their conquest of Gaul which Julius Caesar completed between 58 and 52 BC. His successor, Augustus, then divided Gaul into four provinces: Aquitania, Belgica, Lugdunensis and Narbonensis (previously Provincia, The Province). Five centuries of Roman rule brought the Gauls Christianity, the Latin language, a legal system and a road network.
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© 2000 John Everett-Heath
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Everett-Heath, J. (2000). France. In: Place Names of the World - Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286733_13
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