1993: French Places and Gallic Tribes May 30, 2020

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While we think of the celtic Gauls and the modern (linguistically) romantic French, there are certain ways in which the legacy was continued. Many places in France retain historic tribal names in the place names, such as Gergovie in Auvergne, which at the time of Vercingetorix was the capital for the Gauls, named 'Gergovia', inhabited by the Arverni. This is true for the Turones of modern Tours, the Cadurci from Quercy, the Vellavi from Le Puy-en-Velay, and of course the Senones and the Parisii around modern Paris in the river Seine, and many, many more. Indeed, while the Romans utterly crushed these Gauls (somewhere in the realm of 2-3 million directly killed or displaced, with more indirectly so) but the legacy was not totally removed.

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