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Gaul (other)
Gaul was an ancient region of Western Europe inhabited by Celts. Gaul Gaul may also refer to: * Gaul (surname), a surname * FV Gaul, FV ''Gaul'', a British trawler lost at sea in 1974 * Gauls, the native Celtic population of Gaul * Roman Gaul, the region as part of the Roman Empire * Diocese of Gaul of the Roman Empire in the 4th–5th centuries A.D. GAUL The acronym GAUL may refer to: * Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL), Global Administrative Unit Layers, a project by the FAO to map all administrative units in the world. See also * * * Point au Gaul * Gallo (other) * Galle (other) * Gall (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaul
Gaul () was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Roman people, Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of . According to Julius Caesar, who took control of the region on behalf of the Roman Republic, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Gallia Belgica, Belgica, and Gallia Aquitania, Aquitania. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. This material culture was found throughout Gaul and as far east as modern-day southern Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. Warbands led by the Gaul Brennus (leader of the Senones), Brennos Battle of the Allia, sacked Rome in 387 BC, becoming the only time Rome was conquered by a foreign enemy in 800 years. However, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaul (surname)
Gaul is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred R. Gaul (1837–1913), English composer and conductor * August Gaul (1869–1922), German sculptor * Charly Gaul (1932–2005), Luxembourgish cyclist * David Gaul (1886–1962), American swimmer and 1904 Olympian * Frank Gaul (born 1924), American politician * Gilbert Gaul (artist) (1855–1919), American war artist * Gilbert M. Gaul (born 1951), American journalist * Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881–1945), American composer * Horace Gaul Horace Joseph Gaul (December 21, 1883 – July 9, 1939) was a Canadian professional ice hockey and lacrosse player who played from 1904 until 1913 most notably with the Pittsburgh Professionals, Haileybury Comets, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Tecu ... (1883–1939), ice hockey player * Karl Gaul (1889–1972), German politician * Michael Gaul (born 1973), former professional ice hockey defenceman * William Gaul (1850–1927), Bishop of Mashonaland {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FV Gaul
The fishing vessel ''Gaul'' was a deep sea factory ship based at Hull, United Kingdom. She was launched in December 1971 by Brooke Marine of Lowestoft, entering service during 1972 with the Ranger Fishing company, where she was registered at North Shields as ''Ranger Castor'', SN18. She was renamed when Ranger Fishing was bought by British United Trawlers and re-registered at Hull as ''Gaul'', H243. She sank some time on the night of 8–9 February 1974 in storm conditions in the Barents Sea, north of Norway. No distress signal was received and her loss was not realised until 10 February after she twice failed to report in. An extensive search operation was launched but no trace of the ship was found, apart from a lifebuoy recovered three months later. All thirty-six crew were lost. The president of the British Trawler Federation described the loss of the ''Gaul'' as "the worst ever single-trawler tragedy". The wreck was finally located in 1997. Final voyage ''Gaul'' sailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauls
The Gauls (; , ''Galátai'') were a group of Celts, Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age Europe, Iron Age and the Roman Gaul, Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul (''Gallia''). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language. The Gauls emerged around the 5th century BC as bearers of La Tène culture north and west of the Alps. By the 4th century BC, they were spread over much of what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland, Southern Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, by virtue of controlling the trade routes along the river systems of the Rhône, Seine, Rhine, and Danube. They reached the peak of their power in the 3rd century BC. During the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, the Gauls expanded into Northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul), leading to the Roman–Gallic wars, and Gallic invasion of the Balkans, into the Balkans, leading to Battle of Thermopylae (279 BC), war with the Greeks. These latter Gauls eventually settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Gaul
Roman Gaul refers to GaulThe territory of Gaul roughly corresponds to modern-day France, Belgium and Luxembourg, and adjacent parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. under provincial rule in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. History During the Republic The Roman Republic's influence began in southern Gaul. By the mid-2nd century BC, Rome was trading heavily with the Greek colony of Massalia, Massilia (modern Marseille) and entered into an alliance with them, by which Rome agreed to protect the town from local Gauls, including the nearby Aquitani and from sea-borne Carthaginians and other rivals, in exchange for land that the Romans wanted in order to build a road to Hispania to improve troop movements to its provinces there. The Mediterranean settlements on the coast continued to be threatened by the powerful Gallic tribes to the north and in 122 BC the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 122 BC), Gnaeus Domitius Ahe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Gaul
The Diocese of Gaul (Latin: Dioecesis Galliarum, "diocese of the Gaul rovince") was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, under the praetorian prefecture of Gaul. It encompassed northern and eastern Gaul, that is, modern France north and east of the Loire, including the Low Countries and modern Germany west of the Rhine. The diocese comprised the following provinces: Gallia Lugdunensis I, Gallia Lugdunensis II, Gallia Lugdunensis III, Gallia Lugdunensis IV (Senonia), Belgica I, Belgica II, Germania I, Germania II, Alpes Poenninae et Graiae and Maxima Sequanorum. History The diocese was established after the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine I in c. 314. In the year 407, the Rhine frontier was breached, and much of Gaul lost to barbarian tribes temporarily. Roman control over most of Gaul and the Rhineland was restored until the death of Valentinian III in 455. The territory remaining in Roman hands after the 450s was in the south in the Auvergne and Provence unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL)
The Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) is a spatial database of the administrative units for all the countries in the world. It is a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Mission The GAUL aims at compiling and disseminating the most reliable geographic information on administrative units for all the countries in the world, thereby contributing to the standardization of the spatial dataset representing administrative units. In this framework, its purposes are: * to overcome the fragmentation of the global dataset occurring when administrative units layers are digitized on a country-by-country basis * to keep historical track of changes occurring on the shapes and extent of the administrative units * to promote a unified coding system that reduces maintenance efforts. Characteristics The GAUL always maintains global geographic layers (in shapefile format) with a unified coding system at the levels of country, first administrative (e. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Au Gaul
Point au Gaul is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town had a population of 67 in the Canada 2021 Census, down from 88 in 2016. Point au Gaul is approximately 76 km southeast of Marystown. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Point au Gaul had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. See also * Burin Peninsula * List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the ninth-most populous province in Canada, with 510,550 residents recorded in the 2021 Canadian Census, and is the seventh-largest in land area, with . Newfoundland and Labrador has 278 municipalities, including 3 ... References Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallo (other)
Gallo may refer to: *Related to Gaul: **Gallo-Roman culture **Gallo language, the regional language of Upper Brittany, France **Gallo-Romance, a branch of Romance languages **Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian language, a branch spoken in Northern Italy of the Romance languages **Gallo-Italic of Sicily, a group of Gallo-Italic dialects spoken in central-eastern Sicily ** Gallo-Brittonic languages, Celtic languages of Gaul and Britain **Gallo-Roman religion, a fusion of the traditional religious practices of the Gauls and the Roman and Hellenistic religions Places * Gallo Matese, a commune in the province of Caserta, Italy *Gällö, a locality in Bräcke Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden *Gallo river, a tributary of the Tagus *San Gallo, Italian name for St. Gallen People *Gallo (surname) *Gallo (footballer) (1893–1978), Brazilian footballer *Gallo, nickname for Italian basketball player Danilo Gallinari of the Los Angeles Clippers Fictional characters *Boss Gallo, in the video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galle (other)
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Galle is a town in southwestern Sri Lanka. Galle may also refer to: * Galle (surname) *Galle District, in southern Sri Lanka * Gallé, Mali, a small town in Southwestern Mali *Galle (lunar crater) *Galle (Martian crater), also known as the "happy face crater" * 2097 Galle, an asteroid See also * * * Galle Trilingual Inscription, a stone tablet erected in 1411 in Galle, Sri Lanka * Gall (other) * Galley (other) * Galli (other) * Gally (other) * Gaul (other) Gaul was an ancient region of Western Europe inhabited by Celts. Gaul Gaul may also refer to: * Gaul (surname), a surname * FV Gaul, FV ''Gaul'', a British trawler lost at sea in 1974 * Gauls, the native Celtic population of Gaul * Roman Gaul, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
