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The Gauls ( Latin: Galli; Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul ( Gallia ). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language .
In his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar distinguishes among three ethnic groups in Gaul: the Belgae in the north (roughly between the Rhine and the Seine), the Celtae in the center and in Armorica, and the Aquitani in the southwest, the southeast being already colonized by the Romans.
12 de mai. de 2024 · Gaul, the region inhabited by the ancient Gauls, comprising modern-day France and parts of Belgium, western Germany, and northern Italy. A Celtic people, the Gauls lived in an agricultural society divided into several tribes ruled by a landed class.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
© History Skills. The Gauls were a collection of Celtic tribes that once inhabited vast regions of Western Europe. Stretching from the Atlantic coast to the banks of the Rhine, and from the North Sea to the Pyrenees, the lands of the Gauls were as diverse as the people themselves.
The Romans respected and feared the Gallic tribes. In 390 BC, the Gauls had sacked Rome, which left an existential dread of barbarian conquest the Romans never forgot. [2] In 109 BC, Italy had been invaded from the north and saved by Gaius Marius only after several bloody and costly battles.
28 de abr. de 2011 · Gaul (Latin Gallia, French Gaule) is the name given by the Romans to the territories where the Celtic Gauls (Latin Galli, French Gaulois) lived, including present France, Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany on the west bank of the Rhine, and the Po Valley, in present Italy.
8 de mai. de 2024 · The Balkan Wars. The Gauls spent a long time trying to take over the Balkans. These attempts began in the fourth century BC, a period during which much of the Balkans was ruled over by rival tribes who were constantly at war (not too dissimilar to the Gauls).
