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Gaul c. 58 BC, on the eve of theGallic Wars.The Romans divided Gaul into five parts:Gallia Celtica(largely corresponding to the later provinceGallia Lugdunensis),Gallia Belgica,Gallia Cisalpina,Gallia Narbonensis,andGallia Aquitania.
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Gaul(Latin:Gallia)[1]was a region ofWestern Europefirst clearly described by theRomans,encompassing present-dayFrance,Belgium,Luxembourg,and parts ofSwitzerland,theNetherlands,Germany,andNorthern Italy.It covered an area of 494,000 km2(191,000 sq mi).[2]According toJulius Caesar,who took control of the region on behalf of theRoman Republic,Gaul was divided into three parts:Gallia Celtica,Belgica,andAquitania.

Archaeologically, theGaulswere bearers of theLa Tène cultureduring the 5th to 1st centuries BC.[3]Thismaterial culturewas found not only in all of Gaul but also as far east as modern-day southern Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Gallia Cisalpinawas conquered by the Romans in 204 BC andGallia Narbonensisin 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by theCimbriand theTeutons,who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally subdued the largest part of Gaul in hiscampaignsof 58 to 51 BC.Roman control of Gaullasted for five centuries, until the last Romanrump state,theDomain of Soissons,fell to theFranksin AD 486.

While the Celtic Gauls lost their original identities and language duringLate Antiquity,becoming amalgamated into aGallo-Roman culture,Galliaremained the conventional name of the territory throughout theEarly Middle Ages,until it acquired a new identity as theCapetianKingdom of Francein the high medieval period.Galliaremains a name of France inmodern Greek(Γαλλία) andmodern Latin(besides the alternativesFranciaandFrancogallia).

Name[edit]

Further information:Names of the Celts § Galli, Galatai

The Greek and Latin namesGalatia(first attested byTimaeus of Tauromeniumin the 4th century BC) andGalliaare ultimately derived from a Celtic ethnic term or clanGal(a)-to-.[4]TheGalliofGallia Celticawere reported to refer to themselves asCeltaeby Caesar. Hellenisticetymologyconnected the name of theGalatians(Γαλάται,Galátai) to the supposedly "milk-white" skin (γάλα,gála"milk" ) of the Gauls.[5]Modern researchers say it is related to Welshgallu,[citation needed]Cornish:galloes,[6]"capacity, power",[7]thus meaning "powerful people".

Despite its superficial similarity, the normalEnglishtranslation ofGalliasince the Middle Ages,Gaul,has a different origin than the Latin term. It stems from the FrenchGaule,itself deriving from theOld Frankish*Walholant(via a Latinized form*Walula),[8]literally the "Land of the Foreigners/Romans".*Walho-is a reflex of theProto-Germanic*walhaz,"foreigner, Romanized person", anexonymapplied by Germanic speakers to Celts and Latin-speaking people indiscriminately. It iscognatewith the namesWales,Cornwall,Wallonia,andWallachia.[9]The Germanicw-is regularly rendered asgu-/g-in French (cf.guerre"war",garder"ward",Guillaume"William" ), and the historic diphthongauis the regular outcome ofalbefore a following consonant (cf.cheval~chevaux). FrenchGauleorGaullecannot be derived from LatinGallia,sincegwould becomejbeforea(cf.gamba>jambe), and the diphthongauwould be unexplained; the regular outcome of LatinGalliaisJaillein French, which is found in several western place names, such as,La Jaille-YvonandSaint-Mars-la-Jaille.[10][11]Proto-Germanic*walhais derived ultimately from the name of theVolcae.[12]

Also unrelated, in spite of superficial similarity, is the nameGael.[14]TheIrishwordgalldid originally mean "a Gaul", i.e. an inhabitant of Gaul, but its meaning was later widened to "foreigner", to describe theVikings,and later still theNormans.[15]Thedichotomicwordsgaelandgallare sometimes used together for contrast, for instance in the 12th-century bookCogad Gáedel re Gallaib.

As adjectives, English has the two variants:GaulishandGallic.The two adjectives are used synonymously, as "pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls", although the Celtic language group once spoken in Gaul is predominantly known asGaulish.

History[edit]

Pre-Roman Gaul[edit]

Further information:Prehistoric France,Celts,La Tène culture,andGreeks in pre-Roman Gaul
Map of Roman Gaul (Droysens Allgemeiner historischer Handatlas, 1886)

There is little written information concerning the peoples that inhabited the regions of Gaul, save what can be gleaned from coins. Therefore, the early history of the Gauls is predominantly a matter of archaeology, and the relationships between theirmaterial culture,genetic relationships (the study of which has been aided, in recent years, through the field ofarchaeogenetics) and linguistic divisions rarely coincide.

Before the rapid spread of theLa Tène culturein the 5th to 4th centuries BC, the territory of eastern and southern France already participated in the LateBronze AgeUrnfield culture(c. 12thto 8th centuries BC) out of which the earlyiron-workingHallstatt culture(7th to 6th centuries BC) would develop. By 500 BC, there is strong Hallstatt influence throughout most of France (except for the Alps and the extreme north-west).

Out of this Hallstatt background, the La Tène culture arose during the 7th and 6th century BC, presumably representing an early form ofContinental Celticculture and likely under Mediterranean influence from theGreek,Phoenician,andEtruscan civilizations.This culture spread out in a number of early centers along theSeine,theMiddle Rhineand the upperElbe.By the late 5th century BC, La Tène influence spread rapidly across the entire territory of Gaul.

The La Tène culture developed and flourished during the lateIron Age(from 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC) inFrance,Switzerland,Italy,Austria,southwestGermany,Bohemia,Moravia,SlovakiaandHungary.Farther north extended the contemporarypre-Roman Iron Ageculture ofnorthern GermanyandScandinavia.

A major archaeogenetics study uncovered a migration into southernBritainin the Bronze Age, during the 500-year period from 1300 to 800 BC. The newcomers were genetically most closely related to ancient individuals from Gaul. The authors describe this as a "plausible vector for the spread of earlyCeltic languagesinto Britain ".[16]

The major source of materials on theCeltsof Gaul wasPoseidonios of Apamea,whose writings were quoted byTimagenes,Julius Caesar,theSicilianGreekDiodorus Siculus,and the Greek geographerStrabo.[17]

In the 4th and early 3rd century BC, Gallic clan confederations expanded far beyond the territory of what would becomeRoman Gaul(which defines usage of the term "Gaul" today), into Pannonia, Illyria, northern Italy, Transylvania and even Asia Minor. By the 2nd century BC, the Romans describedGallia Transalpinaas distinct fromGallia Cisalpina.In hisGallic Wars,Julius Caesar distinguishes among three ethnic groups in Gaul: theBelgaein the north (roughly between theRhineand the Seine), the Celtae in the center and inArmorica,and theAquitaniin the southwest, the southeast being already colonized by the Romans. While some scholars believe the Belgae south of theSommewere a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements, their ethnic affiliations have not been definitively resolved. One of the reasons is political interference upon the French historical interpretation during the 19th century.

In addition to the Gauls, there were other peoples living in Gaul, such as the Greeks and Phoenicians who had established outposts such as Massilia (present-dayMarseille) along the Mediterranean coast.[18]Also, along the southeastern French Mediterranean coast, theLigureshad merged with the Celts to form a Celto-Ligurianculture.

Initial contact with Rome[edit]

In the 2nd century BC Mediterranean Gaul had an extensive urban fabric and was prosperous. Archeologists know of cities in northern Gaul including the Biturigian capital ofAvaricum(Bourges),Cenabum(Orléans),Autricum(Chartres) and the excavated site ofBibractenearAutunin Saône-et-Loire, along with a number of hill forts (oroppida) used in times of war. The prosperity of Mediterranean Gaul encouraged Rome to respond to pleas for assistance from the inhabitants ofMassilia,who found themselves under attack by a coalition of Ligures and Gauls.[19]The Romans intervened in Gaul in 154 BC and again in 125 BC.[19]Whereas on the first occasion they came and went, on the second they stayed.[20]In 122 BCDomitius Ahenobarbusmanaged to defeat theAllobroges(allies of theSalluvii), while in the ensuing yearQuintus Fabius Maximus"destroyed" an army of theArverniled by their kingBituitus,who had come to the aid of the Allobroges.[20]Rome allowed Massilia to keep its lands, but added to its own territories the lands of the conquered tribes.[20]As a direct result of these conquests, Rome now controlled an area extending from thePyreneesto the lowerRhôneriver, and in the east up theRhône valleytoLake Geneva.[21]By 121 BC Romans had conquered the Mediterranean region calledProvincia(later namedGallia Narbonensis). This conquest upset the ascendancy of the Gaulish Arverni peoples.

Conquest by Rome[edit]

Main article:Gallic Wars
Gauls in Rome

The Roman proconsul and general Julius Caesar led his army into Gaul in 58 BC, ostensibly to assist Rome's Gaullish allies against the migratingHelvetii.With the help of various Gallic clans (e.g., theAedui) he managed to conquer nearly all of Gaul. While their military was just as strong as the Romans', the internal division between the Gallic tribes guaranteed an easy victory for Caesar, andVercingetorix's attempt to unite the Gauls against Roman invasion came too late.[22][23]Julius Caesar was checked by Vercingetorix at asiege of Gergovia,a fortified town in the center of Gaul. Caesar's alliances with many Gallic clans broke. Even the Aedui, their most faithful supporters, threw in their lot with the Arverni but the ever-loyalRemi(best known for its cavalry) andLingonessent troops to support Caesar. TheGermaniof theUbiialso sent cavalry, which Caesar equipped with Remi horses. Caesar captured Vercingetorix in theBattle of Alesia,which ended the majority of Gallic resistance to Rome.

As many as a million people (probably 1 in 5 of the Gauls) died, another million wereenslaved,[24]300 clans were subjugated and 800 cities were destroyed during the Gallic Wars.[25]The entire population of the city of Avaricum (Bourges) (40,000 in all) were slaughtered.[26]Before Julius Caesar's campaign against the Helvetii (Switzerland), the Helvetians had numbered 263,000, but afterwards only 100,000 remained, most of whom Caesar took asslaves.[27]

Roman Gaul[edit]

Main articles:Roman Gaul,Gallo-Roman culture,History of France,andGallic Empire
Soldiers of Gaul, as imagined by a late 19th-century illustrator for theLarousse dictionary,1898

After Gaul was absorbed asGallia,a set of Roman provinces, its inhabitants gradually adopted aspects of Roman culture and assimilated, resulting in the distinctGallo-Roman culture.[28]Citizenship was granted to all in 212 by theConstitutio Antoniniana.From thethirdto 5th centuries, Gaul was exposed to raids by theFranks.TheGallic Empire,consisting of the provinces of Gaul,Britannia,andHispania,including the peacefulBaeticain the south, broke away from Rome from 260 to 273. In addition to the large number of natives, Gallia also became home to someRoman citizens from elsewhereand also in-migrating Germanic and Scythian tribes such as theAlans.[29]

The religious practices of inhabitants became a combination of Roman and Celtic practice, with Celtic deities such asCobannusandEponasubjected tointerpretatio romana.[30][31]Theimperial cultand Easternmystery religionsalso gained a following. Eventually, after it became the official religion of the Empire and paganism became suppressed, Christianity won out in the twilight days of the Western Roman Empire (while the Christianized Eastern Roman Empire lasted another thousand years, until the invasion of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453); a small but notableJewishpresence also became established.

The Gaulish language is thought to have survived into the 6th century in France, despite considerable Romanization of the local material culture.[32]The last record of spoken Gaulish deemed to be plausibly credible[32]concerned the destruction by Christians of a pagan shrine in Auvergne "called Vasso Galatae in the Gallic tongue".[33]Coexisting with Latin, Gaulish helped shape theVulgar Latindialects that developed into French.[34][35][36][37][38]

The Vulgar Latin in the region of Gallia took on a distinctly local character, some of which is attested in graffiti,[38]which evolved into theGallo-Romancedialects which include French and its closest relatives. The influence ofsubstratelanguages may be seen in graffiti showing sound changes that matched changes that had earlier occurred in the indigenous languages, especially Gaulish.[38]The Vulgar Latin in the north of Gaul evolved into thelangues d'oïlandFranco-Provencal,while the dialects in the south evolved into the modernOccitanandCatalantongues. Other languages held to be "Gallo-Romance" include theGallo-Italic languagesand theRhaeto-Romance languages.

Frankish Gaul[edit]

Main articles:Neustria,Frankish Aquitaine,Frankish Burgundy,andFrankish Gascony
Further information:Visigothic Kingdom,Christianity in Gaul,andList of Frankish synods

Following Frankish victories atSoissons (AD 486),Vouillé (AD 507)andAutun (AD 532),Gaul (except forBrittanyandSeptimania) came under the rule of theMerovingians,the firstkings of France.Gallo-Roman culture, the Romanized culture of Gaul under the rule of the Roman Empire, persisted particularly in the areas of Gallia Narbonensis that developed intoOccitania,Gallia Cisalpinaand to a lesser degree,Aquitania.The formerly Romanized north of Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, developed into Merovingian culture instead. Roman life, centered on the public events and cultural responsibilities of urban life in theres publicaand the sometimes luxurious life of the self-sufficient ruralvillasystem, took longer to collapse in the Gallo-Roman regions, where theVisigothslargely inherited the status quo in the early 5th century. Gallo-Roman language persisted in the northeast into theSilva Carbonariathat formed an effective cultural barrier, with the Franks to the north and east, and in the northwest to the lower valley of theLoire,where Gallo-Roman culture interfaced with Frankish culture in a city likeToursand in the person of that Gallo-Roman bishop confronted with Merovingian royals,Gregory of Tours.

  • Massalia (Marseille) silver coin with Greek legend, 5th–1st century BC.
    Massalia (Marseille) silver coin with Greek legend, 5th–1st century BC.
  • Gold coins of the Gaul Parisii, 1st century BC, (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris).
    Gold coins of the GaulParisii,1st century BC, (Cabinet des Médailles,Paris).
  • Roman silver Denarius with the head of captive Gaul 48 BC, following the campaigns of Julius Caesar.
    Roman silver Denarius with the head of captive Gaul 48 BC, following the campaigns of Julius Caesar.

Gauls[edit]

Social structure, indigenous nation and clans[edit]

Main article:Gauls

A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of theCelticethnicities:Celtae,BelgaeandAquitani.
Expansion of the Celtic culture in the 3rd century BC.

TheDruidswere not the only political force in Gaul, however, and the early political system was complex, if ultimately fatal to the society as a whole. The fundamental unit of Gallic politics was the clan, which itself consisted of one or more of what Caesar calledpagi.Each clan had a council of elders, and initially a king. Later, the executive was an annually-elected magistrate. Among the Aedui, a clan of Gaul, the executive held the title ofVergobret,a position much like a king, but his powers were held in check by rules laid down by the council.

The regional ethnic groups, orpagias the Romans called them (singular:pagus;the French wordpays,"region" [a more accurate translation is 'country'], comes from this term), were organized into larger multi-clan groups, which the Romans calledcivitates.These administrative groupings would be taken over by the Romans in their system of local control, and thesecivitateswould also be the basis of France's eventual division intoecclesiastical bishoprics and dioceses,which would remain in place—with slight changes—until theFrench Revolution.

Although the clans were moderately stable political entities, Gaul as a whole tended to be politically divided, there being virtually no unity among the various clans. Only during particularly trying times, such as theinvasionof Caesar, could the Gauls unite under a single leader like Vercingetorix. Even then, however, the faction lines were clear.

The Romans divided Gaul broadly intoProvincia(the conquered area around the Mediterranean), and the northernGallia Comata( "free Gaul" or "long-haired Gaul" ). Caesar divided the people of Gallia Comata into three broad groups: theAquitani;Galli(who in their own language were calledCeltae); andBelgae.In the modern sense,Gaulish peoplesare defined linguistically, as speakers of dialects of the Gaulish language. While the Aquitani were probablyVascons,the Belgae would thus probably be a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements.

Julius Caesar, in his book,The Gallic Warswrote,

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our Gauls, the third. All these differ from each other in language, customs and laws. The river Garonne separates the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine separate them from the Belgae. Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine, with whom they are continually waging war; for which reason the Helvetii also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, as they contend with the Germans in almost daily battles, when they either repel them from their own territories, or themselves wage war on their frontiers. One part of these, which it has been said that the Gauls occupy, takes its beginning at the river Rhone; it is bounded by the river Garonne, the ocean, and the territories of the Belgae; it borders, too, on the side of the Sequani and the Helvetii, upon the river Rhine, and stretches toward the north. The Belgae rises from the extreme frontier of Gaul, extend to the lower part of the river Rhine; and look toward the north and the rising sun. Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Spain: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.[39]

Religion[edit]

Main article:Celtic polytheism

The Gauls practiced a form ofanimism,ascribing human characteristics to lakes, streams, mountains, and other natural features and granting them a quasi-divine status. Also, worship of animals was not uncommon; the animal most sacred to the Gauls was theboar[40]which can be found on many Gallic military standards, much like theRoman eagle.

Their system of gods and goddesses was loose, there being certain deities which virtually every Gallic person worshipped, as well as clan and household gods. Many of the major gods were related to Greek gods; the primary god worshipped at the time of the arrival of Caesar wasTeutates,the Gallic equivalent ofMercury.The "ancestor god" of the Gauls was identified by Julius Caesar in hisCommentarii de Bello Gallicowith the Roman godDis Pater.[41]

Perhaps the most intriguing facet of Gallic religion is the practice of theDruids.The druids presided over human or animal sacrifices that were made in wooded groves or crude temples. They also appear to have held the responsibility for preserving the annual agricultural calendar and instigating seasonal festivals which corresponded to key points of the lunar-solar calendar. The religious practices of druids were syncretic and borrowed from earlier pagan traditions, with probably indo-European roots. Julius Caesar mentions in his Gallic Wars that those Celts who wanted to make a close study of druidism went to Britain to do so. In a little over a century later, Gnaeus Julius Agricola mentions Roman armies attacking a large druid sanctuary inAngleseyin Wales. There is no certainty concerning the origin of the druids, but it is clear that they vehemently guarded the secrets of their order and held sway over the people of Gaul. Indeed, they claimed the right to determine questions of war and peace, and thereby held an "international" status. In addition, the Druids monitored the religion of ordinary Gauls and were in charge of educating the aristocracy. They also practiced a form of excommunication from the assembly of worshippers, which in ancient Gaul meant a separation from secular society as well. Thus the Druids were an important part of Gallic society. The nearly complete and mysterious disappearance of the Celtic language from most of the territorial lands of ancient Gaul, with the exception of Brittany, can be attributed to the fact that Celtic druids refused to allow the Celtic oral literature or traditional wisdom to be committed to the written letter.[42]

See also[edit]

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