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The name Gaul is sometimes erroneously linked to the ethnic name Gael, which is derived from Old Irish Goidel ( borrowed, in turn, in the 7th century AD from Primitive Welsh Guoidel-spelled Gwyddel in Middle Welsh and Modern Welsh-likely derived from a Brittonic root * Wēdelos meaning literally " forest person, wild man "); the names are, thus, unrelated.
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The river's name may be attested to in the Gaulish ( Helvetic ) Berne zinc tablet which dates back to Roman Gaul.
The " ix " suffix of both names echoes the name of Vercingetorix, a historical Gaul chieftain.
Second, Caesar uses the term Germani, for a very specific tribal grouping in northeastern Belgic Gaul, west of the Rhine, the largest part of which were the Eburones, making clear that he was using the name in the local way.
As a proxy for his father, Romulus made no decisions and left no monuments, though coins bearing his name were minted in Rome, Milan, Ravenna, and Gaul.
The first undisputed mention of the Saxon name in its modern form is from 356, when Julian, later the Roman Emperor, mentioned them in a speech as allies of Magnentius, a rival emperor in Gaul.
Its name is probably derived from the Latin " Canis Gallicus " or " Dog from Gaul ".
A spectacular find in 2006 was the richly detailed bronze and silver brooch ( fibula ) modeled with the figure of Mars, on which Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul to judge by his name, had carefully punched his name before he lost it in the early second century ; nothing comparably fine has been recovered along the Wall.
Their development was halted by the Roman expansion in the Po Valley from the 3rd century BC onwards: after centuries of struggle, in 194 BC the entire area of what is now Lombardy became a Roman province with the name of Gallia Cisalpina (" Gaul on the nearer side of the Alps ").
The legion that Pompey contributes is his in name only, because it was enlisted in Caesar's territory, and then Caesar contributed another legion that had been with him previously in Gaul.
Before the Roman conquest of northern Gaul, Reims, founded circa 80 BC as * Durocorteron (" round fortress "; in Latin: Durocortōrum ), served as the capital of the tribe of the Remi — whose name the town would subsequently echo.
He changes his name to Francus and becomes king of Celtic Gaul ( while, at the same time, Bavo, cousin of Priam, comes to the city of Trier ) and founds the dynasty leading to Pepin and Charlemagne.
Around 400 AD, the primitive form, Juliomagus, is replaced by the term civitas, forming civitas Andecavorum, a common change in Gaul also visible in the names of Paris, Tours or Évreux which then started to use the name of the local Gallic tribes.
The Brythonic form of this name would have been * Windos, the name of a Celtic deity in ancient Gaul.
It is possible that the Esuvii of Gaul, in the area of present-day Normandy, took their name from this deity.
Or perhaps Stephanus of Byzantium was correct in stating in his geographical dictionary that Nemausos, the city of Gaul, took its name from the Heracleid ( or son of Heracles ) Nemausios.
In historic times the town was first recorded in the journals of Julius Caesar, in his commentaries detailing his conquest of Gaul, as the largest town of the Sequani, a smaller Gaulic tribe ; Caesar gave the name of the town as Vesontio ( possibly Latinized ), and mentions that a wooden palisade surrounded it.
It was constructed in 118 BC by the proconsul, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose name it bore ; it was built around the same time the first Roman colony in Gaul, Colonia Narbo Martius ( Narbonne ) was founded.
Eusebius ( Historia Ecclesiae ii: 7 ) quotes some early apocryphal accounts that he does not name, which already relate that Pilate fell under misfortunes in the reign of Caligula ( 37 – 41 ), was exiled to Gaul and eventually committed suicide there in Vienne.
Carus, whose name before the accession may have been Marcus Numerius Carus, was born, probably, at Narbo ( modern Narbonne ) in Gaul, but was educated at Rome.
It was later claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, since gallus is the Latin translation of the French le coq, but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877 and asserted that the name originates from Latin for Gaul, Gallia.
The Seine and Loire are marked in red. Armorica or Aremorica is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast.
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`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??
She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.
`` What is your name, boy??
`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.
Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.
When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.
`` What is your name ''??
Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.
Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.
But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.
After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.
The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.
It is the same ole same, tell me its name.
And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.
You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.
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