What does Gaul mean?
Definitions for Gaul
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Princeton's WordNet
frog, Gaulnoun
a person of French descent
Gaulnoun
a Celt of ancient Gaul
Gaul, Gallianoun
an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
Wiktionary
Gaulnoun
A person from Gaul.
Gaulnoun
A Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium
Wikipedia
Gaul
Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of 494,000 km2 (191,000 sq mi). According to Julius Caesar, who took control of the region on behalf of the Roman Republic, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. This material culture was found not only in all of Gaul but also as far east as modern-day southern Poland, and Hungary. Gallia Cisalpina was conquered by the Romans in 204 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 largest part 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 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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gaul
Gaul was a historical region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, covering present-day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, parts of Northern Italy, Netherlands and Germany, as well as the parts of the North Sea. The inhabitants of Gaul were a Celtic people called the Gauls. The term is primarily used in the context of the Greco-Roman period and Roman control thereof.
Webster Dictionary
Gaulnoun
the Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul)
Gaulnoun
a native or inhabitant of Gaul
Etymology: [F. Gaule, fr. L. Gallia, fr. Gallus a Gaul.]
Wikidata
Gaul
Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. According to the testimony of Julius Caesar, Gaul was divided into three parts, inhabited by the Gauls, the Belgae and the Aquitani, and the Gauls of Gaul proper were speakers of the Gaulish language distinct from the Aquitanian language and the Belgic language. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture, which extended across all of Gaul, as well as east to Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia and southwestern Germania. 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 by the Cimbri and the Teutons after 120 BC, 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. During this time, the Celtic culture had become amalgamated into a Gallo-Roman culture and the Gaulish language was likely extinct by the 6th century.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Gaul
gawl, n. a name of ancient France: an inhabitant of Gaul.—adj. Gaul′ish. [Fr.,—L. Gallus; perh. conn. with A.S. wealh, foreign.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Gaul
the name the ancients gave to two distinct regions, the one Cisalpine Gaul, on the Roman side of the Alps, embracing the N. of Italy, as long inhabited by Gallic tribes; and the other Transalpine Gaul, beyond the Alps from Rome, and extending from the Alps to the Pyrenees, from the ocean to the Rhine, inhabited by different races; subdued by Julius Cæsar 58-50 B.C., and divided by Augustus into four provinces.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
gaul
The ancient name of France and Belgium. The natives, termed by the Greeks Galatæ, by the Romans Galli or Celtæ, came originally from Asia, and invading Eastern Europe, were driven westward, and settled in Spain, North Italy, France and Belgium, and the British Isles.
Etymology and Origins
Gaul
The Gallia of the Romans, from the Celtic name of the country, Gal, “western.”
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
GAUL
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gaul is ranked #7189 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Gaul surname appeared 4,650 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Gaul.
92.1% or 4,285 total occurrences were White.
3.3% or 157 total occurrences were Black.
2.3% or 108 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 53 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.7% or 35 total occurrences were Asian.
0.2% or 12 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Gaul in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Gaul in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Gaul in a Sentence
the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts)
The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts - wets, drys, and hypocrites.
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