Alauna is the feminine form of the

Gaulish god The gods and goddesses of the pre-Christian Celtic peoples are known from a variety of sources, including ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects, and place or personal names. The ancient Celts appear to have had a pantheon ...

Alaunus Alaunus or Alaunius (Gaulish: ''Alaunos'') is a Gaulish god of healing and prophecy . His name is known from inscriptions found in Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in Southern France and in Mannheim in western Germany. In the latter inscription, Al ...

or (possibly) an unrelated

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river goddess in her own right. It appeared as the Latinized form of various placenames in Celtic Europe:

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;France *

Alauna, France ''Alauna'' is a Gallo-Roman town, whose remains are located in the former commune of in Valognes, France. Alauna, situated in the northern region of the Cotentin Peninsula, appears to have been established during the reign of Augustus. It underw ...

or Alaunia, the Roman settlement at

Valognes Valognes () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Geography Valognes is situated in the Cotentin Peninsula, southeast of Cherbourg. Valognes station has rail connections to Caen, Paris and Cherbourg. His ...

in Normandy *Alauna or Alaunus, the Roman name of the River

Aulne The Aulne (; ) is a long river of Brittany in north-western France, flowing down the hills and emptying into the roadstead of Brest, one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest. The river is part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest, the na ...

in Brittany ;England *

Alauna Carvetiorum Alauna was a castrum or fort in the Roman province of Britannia. It occupied a coastal site just north of the town of Maryport in the English county of Cumbria (formerly part of Cumberland). It was linked by a Roman road to the Roman fort an ...

, the Roman coastal fort and settlement at Maryport in Cumbria *Alauna,

Alavana Alavana was a name tentatively (and probably wrongly) applied to the ruins of a Roman fort at Watercrook about south of Kendal in Cumbria, for which the Roman name Medibogdo is a perfect fit to its river-bend position. The fort at Watercrook ...

, Alona, or Alunna, generally identified with the Roman fort at Watercrook near Kendal in Cumbria *Alauna, the Roman settlement at

Alcester Alcester ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England. It is west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 7 miles south of Redditch. The town dates back to the times of Roman ...

in Warwickshire *The

River Aln The River Aln () runs through the county of Northumberland in England. It rises in Alnham in the Cheviot Hills and discharges into the North Sea at Alnmouth on the east coast of England. The river gives its name to the town of Alnwick and the ...

, sometimes identified with the Alauna or Alaunos River in Ptolemy's ''Geography'' *The Roman settlement at Learchild, sometimes identified with the Alauna in Ptolemy's ''Geography'' ;Scotland *The

Allan Water The Allan Water () is a river in central Scotland. Rising in the Ochil Hills, it runs through Strathallan to Dunblane and Bridge of Allan before joining the River Forth. It is liable to cause floods in lower Bridge of Allan. It shares its ...

, sometimes identified with the Alauna or Alaunos River in Ptolemy's ''Geography'' * Ardoch in Perthshire, sometimes identified with the Alauna in Ptolemy's ''Geography'' ;United States *

Alauna, California Alume ( ''Acjachemen'': "raising the head in looking upward") was a large Acjachemen village located at the foot of Santiago Peak, upstream from the village of Putiidhem, within what is now O'Neill Regional Park near the Trabuco Adobe, which wa ...

, a village located between Trabuco Creek and Tijeras Creek

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