The Roman Empire ca. 120 AD, with the province of Gallia Lugdunensis highlighted.

Gallia Lugdunensis was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic nation of Gaul. In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin provincia, pl provinciae) was the basic and until the Tetrarchy (circa The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Celtic nations are areas of modern northwest Europe which identify themselves with the Celtic cultures specifically speakers of Celtic languages. Gaul (Gallia was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western It is named after its capital Lugdunum (today's Lyon), possibly Roman Europe's major city west of Italy, and a major imperial mint. This article is about the city in Gaul for other uses of Lugdunum see Lugdunum (disambiguation Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum (modern ||-||} Lyon, also known as Lyons in English is a city in east-central France. Outside Lugdunnum was the Condate Altar, where representatives of the Three Gauls met to celebrate the cult of Rome and Augustus. Its original extent was from the rivers Seine and Marne in the north-east, which formed the boundary with Gallia Belgica, to the river Garonne in the south-west, which formed the border with Gallia Aquitania. The Seine (sɛn in French) is a slow flowing major River and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie Marne is a department in north-eastern France named after the Marne River which flows through the department Gallia Belgica was a Roman province located in what is now the southern part of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, northeastern The Garonne (Garonne in Occitan, Catalan and Spanish: Garona; Garumna is a River in southwest France and northern Under Augustus, Gallia Lugdunensis was reduced in size. Augustus ( Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was The portion between the river Loire and the Garonne was given to Gallia Aquitania, and central-eastern portions were given to the new province of Germania Superior. Loire ( Arpitan: Lêre, Occitan: Léger) is an administrative department in the east-central part of France occupying the Germania Superior ("Upper Germania " so called for the reason that it lay upstream of Germania Inferior, was a province of the The map shows the extent after these reductions. It was an imperial province, deemed important enough to be governed by an imperial legate. A legatus (often anglicized as legate) was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer Since Diocletian's Tetrarchy (296), it was the major province of a diocese confusingly called Galliae ('the Gaul [province]s'), to which further only the Helvetic, Belgian (both also Celtic) and German provinces belonged; with the dioceses of Viennensis (the southern provinces of Gaul), Britanniae (also Celtic) and Hispaniae (the whole Celtiberian peninsula) this formed the praetorian prefecture also called Galliae, subordinate to the western emperor. Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus ( ca. December 22 244 The modern historian Timothy Barnes takes December 22 as his birthdate Tetrarchy ( Greek: "leadership of four " can be applied to any system of government where power is divided between four individuals The Diocese of Gaul ( Latin: Dioecesis Galliarum, "diocese of the Gaul s" was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, under the Praetorian The Diocese of the Seven Provinces ( Latin: Dioecesis Septem Provinciarum) originally called the Diocese of Vienne ( Latin: Dioecesis Viennensis Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410 Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar

Fiction

The fictional unconquered village from the French comic book Asterix the Gaul is located here, on an Aremorican peninsula (modern Bretagne). The Adventures of Asterix ( French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois) is a series of French A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The Adventures of Asterix ( French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois) is a series of French

See also

• Gaul
• Lyonesse