The current French ancient part of the Zaalpiyskoy Gallii as the Romans called the country limited the Mediterranean Sea, mountains, the Atlantic Ocean, the Channel Tunnel, the Rhine and exact.
The Romans first entrenched in the south, the coastal strip this vast territory to connect Italy with Spain, and have won the title Narbonskoy Gallii (about 120 BC town. E). . Hence, the 58-50 estimates. BC. et. Julius Caesar undertook the conquest and the remaining three parts, which were the names of Aquitaine (the Garonne), Keltskoy Gallii (on the Loiret and the Seine) and Belgian (from Sena to Reyna; See Table. I, I stake).
In August of the border four parts Gallii were fresh, the former Celtic Gaul was significantly cut back in favor of Aquitaine and Belgiki and was named Lugdunskoy (ie Lyon) Gallii. At the end of his tsarstvovanii Aug. added another north-eastern outskirts of two "Germany" : Upper and Lower (see Fig. I stake II). When Diokletiane and Constantine the Great Empire was divided into four prefectures, with units in the province and diotsezy, Gaul formed from the one of the three diotsezov Gallskoy Prefecture and was divided into 17 provinces.
This is the device remained until the great displacement of peoples. During the fifth century on the grounds of Gallii settled (see Fig. I stake III) : a) on the left bank of the Rhine-franc and alemanny, of whom quickly won the first of the northern Galliyu and had conquered a alemannov (496); B) for Rone and Sene - burgundy, a State which in the middle of VI. it also won Franks; c) in the southwestern part of Gallii - Visigoth, marginal thence Franks in the early VI. Thus, in the V-VI centuries. Gaul joined the vast Frankish monarchy (see Fig. I, maps IV and V), which in mid-IX. pronounced medieval F.
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