Gaul (Latin Gallia, Greek Galatia) is the region of Western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. In English the word Gaul also refers to a Celtic inhabitant of that region in ancient times, but the Gauls were widespread in Europe by Roman times, speaking the Gaulish language. Besides the Gauls living on the territory of modern-day France, there were the Lepontii who had settled in the plains of northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina), and the Helvetii who s ...

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• Gaul - Name
• Gaul - Roman Gaul
• Gaul - Gaulish tribes
• Gaul - Source for The Gallic Wars

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Caesar divided the people of Gaul into three broad groups: the Aquitani; Galli (who in their own language were called Celtae); and Belgae. In the modern sense, Gaulish tribes are defined linguistically, as speakers of dialects of the Gaulish language. While the Aquitani were probably Vascons, the Belgae would thus probably be counted among the Gaulish tribes. Julius Caesar's comments on these people from his book, ...

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Gaul, Gaul - Name, Gaul - Roman Gaul, Gaul - Gaulish tribes, Gaul - Source for The Gallic Wars

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Charly Gaul (December 8, 1932 – December 6, 2005) was a leading professional cyclist of the 1950s. He was an accomplished time trialist, however, he was renowned as a climbing specialist. His climbing ability earned him the nickname of The Angel of the Mountains in the 1958 Tour de France which he won overall and took ten stage victories. He was also successful in the Giro d'Italia, winning in 1956 and 1959, and claiming several further high places. Gaul was known for his strong performances in cold and wet weather conditions, of which he often took advantage to attack his rivals. He was known for his high pe ...

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• Charly Gaul - Tour de France career
• Charly Gaul - Early years
• Charly Gaul - 1958 victory
• Charly Gaul - 1959 Tour
• Charly Gaul - Late Tours
• Charly Gaul - Giro d'Italia
• Charly Gaul - Other major victories
• Charly Gaul - Retirement

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The Atrebates (meaning settlers) were a Belgic tribe of Gaul and Britain before the Roman conquests. Atrebates - The Atrebates in Gaul. The Gaulish Atrebates lived in or around modern Artois in northern France. Their capital, Nemetocenna, is now the city of Arras. In 57 BC they were part of a Belgic military alliance in response to Julius Caesar's conquests elsewhere in Gaul, contributing 15,000 men. Caesar took this build-up as a threat and marched against it, but the Belgae had the advantage ...

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• Atrebates - The Atrebates in Gaul
• Atrebates - The Atrebates in Britain

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Image:Belgicaromana.gif The Belgae were a group of nations or tribes living in north-eastern Gaul, on the west bank of the Rhine, in the 1st century BC, and later also attested in Britain. Their name survives in modern Belgium. Julius Caesar in his De Bello Gallico divided the people of Gaul at the time of his conquests (58 - 51 BC) into three broad groups: the Aquitani, Galli (who in their own language were called Celtae) and Belgae, all of whom had their own customs and language. He n ...

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• Belgae - Origins of the Belgae
• Belgae - Conquest of the Belgae
• Belgae - The Belgae outside Gaul

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The Cimbri were a Proto-Germanic tribe who according to Pliny the Elder lived on Jutland (Chersonesus Cimbrica), and the Jutish region of Himmerland (where the contemporary Gundestrup cauldron was found) is thought to preserve their name (cf. Grimm's law, K->H). The name has been analysed as the name kimme meaning "rim", i.e. the people of the coast[1], but there is also the hypothesis that the name is related to that of the Cimmerians. Charles Kingsley links the name to the word "Champ(ion)" which gives us the ...

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• Cimbri - Moving south-east
• Cimbri - Invading Gaul
• Cimbri - Attacking the Roman Republic
• Cimbri - Defeat
• Cimbri - Culture

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Aedui, Haedui or Hedui (Gr. Aidouoi), are Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar (Saone) and Liger (Loire), in today's France. The statement in Strabo (ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis (Doubs) is incorrect. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire, Côte-d'Or and Nièvre. According to Livy (v. 34), they took part in the expedition of ...

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The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. The Vandals may have given their name to the province of Andalusia (originally, Vandalusia, then Arabic Al-Andalus), in the south of Spain, where they temporarily settled before pushing on to Africa. The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the Burgund ...

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• Vandals - Origins
• Vandals - History
• Vandals - Gaul
• Vandals - Iberia
• Vandals - Africa
• Vandals - Sack of Rome
• Vandals - Decline
• Vandals - List of kings
• Vandals - Vandalic language
• Vandals - Modern heritage

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Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, the apparent religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celtic peoples in close contact with Rome, such as the Gauls and Celtiberians, their mythology did not survive the Roman empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic languages. Ironically it is through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that what we do know of their belie ...

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• Celtic mythology - Historical sources
• Celtic mythology - Julius Caesar’s comments on Celtic Religion and their significance
• Celtic mythology - Branches of Celtic mythology
• Celtic mythology - Celtic deities
• Celtic mythology - The gods of the ancient Celts
• Celtic mythology - The gods of Ireland
• Celtic mythology - The gods of Wales
• Celtic mythology - The Dagda
• Celtic mythology - The Morrígan
• Celtic mythology - Belenus
• Celtic mythology - Lúgh/Lug
• Celtic mythology - Other gods
• Celtic mythology - Temples
• Celtic mythology - Celtic worship
• Celtic mythology - The druids
• Celtic mythology - Significance of Prophecy in Druidic Ritual
• Celtic mythology - Modern remnants
• Celtic mythology - Druidism?

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The term Celts (pronounced "kelts" or "selts")[1] refers to any of a number of ancient peoples in Europe using the Celtic languages, which form a branch of Indo-European languages, as well as others whose language is unknown but where associated cultural traits such as Celtic art are found in archaeological evidence. Historical theories were developed that these factors were indicat ...

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• Celt - Development of the term Celt
• Celt - Population genetics
• Celt - Origins and geographical distribution
• Celt - Celts in Ireland and Britain
• Celt - Roman influence
• Celt - Examples of Romanization
• Celt - Celtic Christianity
• Celt - Celts pushed west by Germanic migration
• Celt - Celtic social system and arts
• Celt - Celtic Religous Patterns
• Celt - Celts as head-hunters
• Celt - Names for Celts
• Celt - The name Gauls
• Celt - The word Welsh
• Celt - The name Celts
• Celt - Endnotes

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In Celtic mythology and especially Gaul, Aveta was a goddess of childbirth and midwives. Other related archivesCeltic mythology, Gaul

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In Continental Brythonic mythology, Vosegus was the patron god of the Vosges Forest in Gaul. Other related archivesContinental Brythonic mythology, Gaul

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In Celtic mythology, Damona ("Divine cow") was a fertility goddess worshipped in Gaul as the consort of Borvo. Other related archivesBorvo, Celtic mythology, Gaul, goddess

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In Celtic mythology, Buxenus was the god of box trees, worshipped primarily in Gaul alongside Abellio, Fagus and Robur. Other related archivesAbellio, Celtic mythology, Fagus, Gaul, Robur, box trees

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All Gaul is divided into three parts. No, four - for one small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the Roman invaders... Centurion Crismus Bonus, keen to discover the secret of the Gauls' superhuman strength, sends a spy into the village. The Roman's identity is revealed when he loses his false moustache, but now he knows about the magic potion brewed by the Druid Getafix. With that potion, thinks Crismus Bonus, he could overthrow Julius Caesar and become Emperor himself, so he kidnaps Getafix to get the recipe. When ...

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Asterix the Gaul, Asterix the Gaul - Plot Summary, Asterix the Gaul - Introducing, Asterix the Gaul - Notes

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The original Formal Inquiry in 1974 concluded that the most likely reason for her loss was that she was capsized by a succession of heavy seas (ie very large waves) and was unable to right herself. Note that the preliminary inquiry had found serious deficiencies in the maintenance of hatches on Gaul's sister ship Kurd, but that this was downplayed at the formal inquiry. In 1975 the Norwegian trawler Rairo reported snagging her nets on an obstruction in the area Gaul was lost. In 1977 the UK government decid ...

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FV Gaul, FV Gaul - The 1970s inquiry, FV Gaul - Suspicions mount, FV Gaul - The wreck is found, FV Gaul - 2004 inquiry, FV Gaul - Notes

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0n 17 December 2004 the RFI concluded that these open hatches compromised the ships watertight design and, combined with a following (and as already noted heavy) sea led to flooding on the factory deck. An attempted emergency manoeuvre by the officer of the watch (a perfectly logical move to try to turn 'into the sea') catastrophically deprived Gaul of her stability - as floodwater moved around - and buoyancy, causing her to sink very rapidly, stern first. The report dismissed the notion that Gaul was involved in espionage or that she was in a collision and found that she was not fishing at the time of ...

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FV Gaul, FV Gaul - The 1970s inquiry, FV Gaul - Suspicions mount, FV Gaul - The wreck is found, FV Gaul - 2004 inquiry, FV Gaul - Notes

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In 1997 a TV crew, with help from Norwegian experts located the wreck exactly where Rairo had reported snagging her nets. This prompted UK Deputy Prime Minister (and Hull MP) John Prescott to ask the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the Department for Transport to carry out extensive surveys of the wreck, which it did in 1998 (with further work in 2002). From its findings MAIB said there was enough new evidence to warrant a new inquiry. Specifically the surveys revealed that several of Gaul's hatches were either s ...

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FV Gaul, FV Gaul - The 1970s inquiry, FV Gaul - Suspicions mount, FV Gaul - The wreck is found, FV Gaul - 2004 inquiry, FV Gaul - Notes

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Charly Gaul - Early years. Gaul rode his first Tour de France in 1953, but abandoned on the sixth stage. He also started the 1954 Tour but again abandoned before the finish. In the 1955 Tour, he finished third overall, won two stage victories and the overall mountains classification. He won stage 8 to Briançon and looked set for a second straight win the next day, but crashed while in the lead on a rain-soaked Alpine descent. He retained hopes of a high finishing position, and attacked in the Pyrenees, wi ...

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Charly Gaul, Charly Gaul - Tour de France career, Charly Gaul - Early years, Charly Gaul - 1958 victory, Charly Gaul - 1959 Tour, Charly Gaul - Late Tours, Charly Gaul - Giro d'Italia, Charly Gaul - Other major victories, Charly Gaul - Retirement

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