Gaul

A Roman province formed by modern-day France and parts of Belgium, western Germany, northern Italy, and Switzerland. Cities were Nimes, Autun, Arles, Orange, Trier, and Frejus. Caesar's conquests (58-51 BC) and Augustus's organization (30 BC-14 AD) resulted in four Gallic provinces: southern or 'senatorial' Narbonensis, the 'imperial' Aquitania, Lugdunensis, and Belgica. The region was inhabited by the ancient Gauls, a Celtic race, who lived in an agricultural society were divided into several tribes ruled by a landed class.

[Latin Gallia]. The Romans regarded France and Germany west of the Rhine as a unity, inhabited primarily by Galli. In 121 bc they annexed the southernmost strip as Gallia Transalpina. Caesar’s conquests (58-51 bc) and Augustus’s organization (30 bc-14 ad) resulted in four Gallic provinces: the southern or ‘senatorial’ Narbonensis, and the ‘imperial’ Aquitania, Lugdunensis and Bélgica.