Made In History | Gaul, A Short History Of France's Ancient Land (History of France) @MadeInHistory | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 28 minutes ago.
The history of Gaul before Roman conquest under Caesar.
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Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic and Aquitani tribes, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, particularly the west bank of the Rhine. It covered an area of 494,000 km2 (191,000 sq mi). According to Julius Caesar, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture, which extended across all of Gaul, as well as east to Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, and southwestern Germania during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, Gaul fell under Roman rule: Gallia Cisalpina was conquered in 203 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally subdued the remaining parts of Gaul in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC.
Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump state, the Domain of Soissons, fell to the Franks in AD 486. While the Celtic Gauls had lost their original identities and language during Late Antiquity, becoming amalgamated into a Gallo-Roman culture, Gallia remained the conventional name of the territory throughout the Early Middle Ages, until it acquired a new identity as the Capetian Kingdom of France in the high medieval period. Gallia remains a name of France in modern Greek (Γαλλία) and modern Latin (besides the alternatives Francia and Francogallia).
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The history of Gaul before Roman conquest under Caesar.
CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN: youtu.be/p7DGnK-rvlQ
Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic and Aquitani tribes, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, particularly the west bank of the Rhine. It covered an area of 494,000 km2 (191,000 sq mi). According to Julius Caesar, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture, which extended across all of Gaul, as well as east to Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, and southwestern Germania during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, Gaul fell under Roman rule: Gallia Cisalpina was conquered in 203 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally subdued the remaining parts of Gaul in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC.
Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump state, the Domain of Soissons, fell to the Franks in AD 486. While the Celtic Gauls had lost their original identities and language during Late Antiquity, becoming amalgamated into a Gallo-Roman culture, Gallia remained the conventional name of the territory throughout the Early Middle Ages, until it acquired a new identity as the Capetian Kingdom of France in the high medieval period. Gallia remains a name of France in modern Greek (Γαλλία) and modern Latin (besides the alternatives Francia and Francogallia).
Check out our playlists by period:
ANCIENT: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfeaCPbUN9CSlh2ZQw-rqrA5
MEDIEVAL: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfdEFkgCNEIL42L4QFkt5z-l
MODERN: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfcGWBK--AOUYnrq4AnEq4sw
Check out our playlists by REGION:
AFRICA: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGffYW4Ws0nMdeiJToAzXpXBo
AMERICAS: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfc37vCuj0uoC05MvEBpYq99
ASIA: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfe-tkHDLw2mhimQZjTMldVo
EUROPE: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfdT4F5SopH8TxJkFQBvVTWU
OCEANIA: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfdvPO1STg0Wnd0Q44O87aFr
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