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the place that taught rome losing your independence looks great in marble later.
means an ancient region covering roughly modern france, belgium, and parts beyond, home to celtic tribes before rome conquered it.
from from latin gallia, itself likely from a celtic root meaning something like foreigner or warrior, applied by romans to the tribes west of the alps and north of the mediterranean.
caesar's projectconquered it in the gallic wars, wrote the book himself
three partscaesar opens by dividing gaul into three, famously
vercingetorixunited tribes, lost anyway, became a national symbol later
asterix's homecomic village holds out against rome via magic potion