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Throughout the 4th century small groups of Germans had been settling in Gaul with the permission of the Roman authorities. In 406 this movement became an invasion when the Vandals, Suevi, and Alans broke through the frontier, moved rapidly across Gaul on a south-westerly course, and crossed into Spain. In 412 the Visigoths freely entered southern Gaul from Italy, and about 440 the Burgundians settled in eastern Gaul. In the north-west, Celtic refugees from Britain, which had ... been invaded by Germanic peoples, sought and gained refuge and gave their name to the region of Brittany. In 451 Germans, Romans, and Gauls united to defeat a new horde of invaders—the Huns under Attila.
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After the Roman conquest of Gaul (finished in 51 BC), "romanisation" of the Celtic upper classes proceeded more rapidly than the "romanisation" of the lower classes. These classes may have talked a Latin language mixted with gallic. The gauls wore the roman tunic instead of local vestimentary inhabits. The roman-gauls generally lived in the vici, small villages built like in Italy or in villae, for the richest.
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In English the word Gaul ... commonly refers to a Celtic inhabitant of that region in ancient times, but the Gauls were widespread in Europe by Roman times, speaking dialects of the Gaulish language. Besides the Gauls living on the territory of modern-day France, there were the Lepontians who had settled in the plains of northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina), and the Helvetii who settled to the north of the alps, in Raetia.
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You cannot compare the pre-Roman Celtic peoples of Gaul to the state of the Frankish kingdom in an entirely different era. The fact is, Gaul WAS utterlly Romanized. It was united, and its society was as highly advanced as any in the world at that time. You cannot say that the tribal, disunited Celtic peoples of Gaul would not have been able to withstand the Muslim onslaught, because, by this time, the Gauls were not at all like that! They had become completely Romanized. The Gaul of old, was no longer in existence.
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After the Roman conquest of Gaul (finished in 51 BC), "romanisation" of the Celtic upper classes proceeded rapidly. Little is ... known about "romanisation" of the lower classes, and it is speculated (based on some examples) that, in many social areas (especially in mundane and day-to-day contexts), this "romanisation" remained limited. For example, the reuse of the site of the Celtic sanctuary of
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The region inhabited by the ancient Gauls, (Galli, the Roman name for the Celtic people there) comprised modern-day France and parts of Belgium, western Germany, and northern Italy. By the 5th century BCE the Gauls had migrated south from the Rhine River valley to the Mediterranean coast. Between 600-400 BCE growing populations of Gauls began to spread over the Alps into northern Italy, drawn by abundant food resources. The region of Italy occupied by the Gauls was called Cisalpine Gaul ("Gaul this side of the Alps") by the Romans.
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