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Owen MacLeod, born in Gaul over 2000 years ago, was the son of a tribal chieftain whose village was crushed by the Roman Empire. MacLeod was sent in chains to the gladiatorial arena in Pompeii where he faced what he imagined to be a short life of battle. However, it was in the Coliseum where he was killed, only to miraculously recover and begin a new life as an Immortal. Fighting through centuries against other Immortals in legendary battles ending in death by beheading, MacLeod now faces a mysterious and almost all-powerful Immortal who is hunting him down in New York City. With his mentor, Methos, guiding him, MacLeod learns that the only way to destroy this ultimate nemesis, is to search out the three fragments of a mysterious stone that when pieced together, yields unlimited power to the Immortal who possesses it.
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Gaul was a historical region located in modern-day France, ultimately conquered by and absorbed into the Roman Empire. During its conquest by Roman politician-general Julius Caesar in the 50s BCE, three Roman cohorts led by a tribune named Marcus Scaurus, along with a Gaul named Viridovix, disappeared without a trace after being surrounded by a glowing dome of light.
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To the Romans, Gaul consisted of two main divisions: Gallia Cisalpina (in present-day northern Italy) and Gallia Translapina. Gallia Cisalpina, or "Gaul this side of the Alps" as viewed from Rome, was ... called Gallia Citerior, or Hither Gaul, to distinguish it from Gallia Ulterior, or Farther Gaul, better known as Gallia Transalpina, or "Gaul across the Alps." Rome gradually extended its way over all Gallia Cisalpina, establishing colonies in the various Gaulish towns. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar conferred Roman citizenship on the inhabitants of these towns. Many illustrious Romans were born in the territory of Gallia Cisalpina, including the poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Catullus, the historian Livy, and the statesmen and writers Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.
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In English usage the words Gaul and Gaulish are used synonymously with Latin Gallia, Gallus and Gallicus. However the similarity of the names is probably accidental: the English words are borrowed from French Gaule and Gaulois, which appear to have been borrowed themselves from Germanic walha-, the usual word for the non-Germanic people (Celts and Romans indiscriminately). Germanic w is regularly rendered with French gu / g (cf. guerre = war, garder = ward), and the diphthong au is the regular outcome of al before a following consonant (cf. cheval ~ chevaux). Gaule or Gaulle can hardly be derived from Latin Gallia, since g would become j before a (cf.
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In the 6th century, the former Gaul continued to be divided in three parts, as Caesar had described. The Franks were in occupation of most of the territory. A Visigothic kingdom was established in the southwest region that would become Aquitaine. And in the areas that would become Provence and Languedoc a Gallo-Roman culture continued into the time of Gregory of Tours.
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Although the Romans had won political control over Gaul, they never succeeded in imposing Roman culture throughout the land. Various provinces differed greatly in the degree to which they accepted Roman culture. The only serious attempt to rebel politically against Rome was the uprising of Postumus (A.D. 257), but Gallo-Roman civilization was too strong to fall before anything but the Germans of the 5th and 6th cent.
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