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The Gauls were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period. Their homeland was known as Gaul. They spoke Gaulish, a Continental Celtic language.
The Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, Rome
Celtic sword and scabbard circa 60 BC
The Dying Gaul, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, showing the face, hairstyle and torc of a Gaul or Galatian
Agris Helmet. Discovered in Agris, Charente, France, 350 BC
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Gaul was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
Gauls in Rome
Soldiers of Gaul, as imagined by a late 19th-century illustrator for the Larousse dictionary, 1898
Massalia (Marseille) silver coin with Greek legend, 5th–1st century BC.
Gold coins of the Gaul Parisii, 1st century BC, (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris).