What was the name of the modern day country of gaul?
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Gaul (Latin Gallia, Greek Galatia) was the region of Western Europe occupied by present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river.\n\nIn English the word Gaul also refers to a Celtic inhabitant of that region in ancient times, but the Gauls were widespread in Europe by Roman times, speaking the Gaulish language (a derivative of early Celtic). In addition to the Gauls, there were other peoples living in the territory of present-day northern Italy, such as the Lepontii who had settled on the southern slopes of the Italian Alps, in Raetia.\n\nGauls under Brennus sacked Rome circa 390 BC. In the Aegean world, a huge migration of Eastern Gauls appeared in Thrace, north of Greece, in 281 BC. Another Gaulish chieftain named Brennus, at the head of a large army, was only turned back from desecrating the Temple of Apollo at Delphi at the last minute -- he was alarmed, it was said, by portents of thunder and lightning. At the same time a migrating band of Celts, some 10,000 fighting men, with their women and children and slaves, were moving through Thrace. Three tribes of Gauls crossed over from Thrace to Asia Minor at the express invitation of Nicomedes I, king of Bithynia, who required help in a dynastic struggle against his brother. Eventually they settled down in eastern Phrygia and Cappadocia in central Anatolia, a region henceforth known as Galatia.\nContents
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France is divided into 95 administrative areas called "departments".\n\n01 Ain  Rhône - Alpes \n02 Aisne  Picardie  &  Nord \n03 Allier  Limousin  &  Auvergne \n04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence  Provence-Alpes-Côte   d'Azur \n05 Hautes - Alpes  Provence-Alpes-Côte   d'Azur \n06 Alpes-Maritime  Provence-Alpes-Côte    d'Azur \n07 Ardèche  Rhône - Alpes \n08 Ardennes  Champagne \n09 Ariège  Midi - Pyrénées \n10 Aube  Champagne \n11 Aude  Languedoc - Rousillon \n12 Aveyron  Midi - Pyrénées \n13 Bouches-du-Rhône  Provence-Alpes-Côte    d'Azur \n14 Calvados  Normandie \n15 Cantal  Limousin & Auvergne \n16 Charente  Pitou -Charentes \n17 Charente - Maritime  Pitou -Charentes \n18 Cher  Centre \n19 Corréze  Limousin & Auvergne \n20 Corse {Corsica}  Corse [ Corsica ] \n2A Corse - du - sud  Corse [ Corsica ] \n2B Haute - Corse  Corse [ Corsica ] \n21 Côte - d' or  Bourogne [ Burgundy ] \n22 Côtes d ' Armor   Bretagne [ Brittany ] \n23 Creuse  Limousin & Auvergne \n24 Dordogne  Aquitaine \n25 Doubs  Franche - Comté \n26 Drôme  Rhône - Alpes \n27 Eure  Normandie \n28 Eure - et - Loire  Centre \n29 Finistère  Breagne [ Brittany ] \n30 Gard  Languedoc - Rousillon \n31 Haute - garonne  Midi - Pyrénées \n32 Gers  Midi - Pyrénées \n33 Gironde  Aquitaine \n34 Hérault  Languedoc - Rousillon \n35 Ille - et - Vilaine  Bretagne [ Brittany ]  \n36 Indre  Centre \n37 Indre - et - Loire  Centre \n38 Isère  Rhône - Alpes \n39 Jura  Franche - Comté \n40 Landes  Aquitaines \n41 Loir - et - Cher  Centre \n42 Loire  Rhône - Alpes \n43 Haute - Loire  Limousin & Auvergne \n44 Loire - Atlantique  Pays - de - la - Loire \n45 Loiret  Centre \n46 Lot  Midi - Pyrénées \n47 Lot - et - Garonne  Aquitaine \n48 Lozère  Languedoc - Rousillon \n\n\n49 Maine et Loire  Pays-de-la Loire \n50 Manche  Normandie \n51 Marne  Champagne \n52 Haute - Marne  Champagne \n53 Mayenne  Pays-de-la-Loire \n54 Meurthe-et-Moselle  Alsace & Lorraine \n55 Meuse  Alsace & Lorraine \n56 Morbihan  Bretagne [ Brittany ] \n57 Moselle  Alsace & Lorraine \n58 Nièvre  Bourgogne  [ Burgundy ] \n59 Nord  Picardie & Nord \n60 Oise  Picardie & Nord \n61 Orne  Normandie  [Normandy ] \n62 Pas de Calais  Picardie & Nord \n63 Puy-de-Dôme  Limousin & Auvergne \n64 Pyrénées - Atlantiques  Aquitaine \n65 Hautes - Pyrénées  Midi - Pyrénées \n66 Pyrénées - Orientales  Languedoc - Rousillon \n67 Bas - Rhine  Alsace & Lorraine  \n68 Haut - Rhin  Alsace & Lorraine \n69 Rhône  Rhône - Alpes \n70 Haute - Saône  Franche - Comté \n71 Saône - et - Loire  Bourgogne [ Burgundy ] \n72 Sarthe  Pays-de-la-Loire \n73 Savoie  Rhône - Alpes \n74 Haute - Savoie  Rhône - Alpes \n75 Paris  Ile - de - France \n76 Seine - Maritime  Normandie  [Normandy ] \n77 Seine et - Marne  Ile - de - France \n78 Yvelines  Ile - de - France \n79 Deux - Sèvres  Pitou - Charentes \n80 Somme  Picardie & Nord \n81 Tarn  Midi - Pyrénées \n82 Tarn - et - Garonne  Midi - Pyrénées \n83 Var  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur \n84 Vaucluse  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur \n85 Vendée  Pays - de - la - Loire \n86 Vienne  Pitou - Charentes \n87 Haute - Vienne  Limousin & Auvergne \n88 Vosges  Alsace & Lorraine \n89 Yonne  Bourgogne  [ Burgundy ] \n90 Territoire-de-Belfort  Franche - Comté \n91 Essonne  Ile - de - France \n92 Hauts - de - Seine  Ile - de - France \n93 Seine - Saint - Denis  Ile - de - France \n94 Val -de- Marne  Ile - de - France \n95 Val  d'Oise  Ile - de - France
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Louis was the King of France. The French explorers named it that.\n\n1682  The French explorer Sieur de La Salle, the first to descend the Mississippi to its mouth, took possession "of the country known as Louisiana," and named it for the reigning monarch of France, Louis XIV. \n\nAnnual events Mardi Gras, and the Louisiana Folk Life Festival.
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Macedonian.\nThank you Mike, but Hellenic people called ancient Macedonians with the name Barbarians (prepared to all who was not Hellenic).The north of today's Greece is called Macedonia 20-30 years ago, not before.Why?\nBy the way, have you ever been to "that" named FYROM.Everyone who lives there will say you it is Macedonia and people there have no another name but Macedonians.It was not putted just in occasion, but centuries ago.All towns and villages in North of today's Greece have also macedonian names. How is it possible? \nHowever, not to be angry to Greece, without macedonian part it'll only be Athens, (Sparta,Mikena,Crete...)etc.\nPlease, visit Macedonia, even you really think it's truth name is FYROM
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France is the largest country in western Europe. It is bordered by both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.\n\n \n\nCapital Paris \nLargest City Paris (2,175,200) \nLanguage French \nCurrency Euro \nPopulation 60,180,529 (July 2003 est.) \nReligions Roman Catholic 90%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim (North African workers) 3%, unaffiliated 4% \nArea more than 210,000 square miles includes the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea \nHighest Mountain Mont Blanc, in the Alps. It is the highest mountain in Europe. \nLongest River River Loire \nNatural resources: coal, iron ore, bauxite, fish, timber, zinc, potash  \nWeather\nFrance generally has cool winters and mild summers. However, along the Mediterranean they have hot summers.\n\nThe north has cool weather. In the south it gets very hot in summer. Fruits such as oranges and lemons grow in the south. \n\nMountains\nThere are mountains in parts of France. Some mountains are snow-capped\nall year. The highest mountain is Mont Blanc at 4,807 m. \n\nFrench Cheeses\nMore than 350 kinds of cheese are made in France.\n\nWhat is France Famous for?\nFrance is famous for cheese (Camembert, Brie, Roquefort) wine, perfume\n(Chanel, Dior, Givenchy) and cars (Renault, Citroen, Peugeot). It is also famous for the Tour de France and the Tour Eiffel. \n\nFamous Landmarks of Paris\nSymbols such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Latin Quarter, Montmartre, and the Georges Pompidou Center make Paris one of the most visited places in the world.\n \n\n Fact: Every summer more than 100 professional cyclists race in the Tour de France. The race is approximately 2,000 miles long. The race lasts up to three weeks and is held in July. The route changes from year to year. \n\nThe Louvre is one of the largest art museums in the world. Some of the paintings exhibited there are from the French artists Monet, Cezanne, and Renoir.\n\nThe Eiffel Tower is probably one of the most famous symbols of France. It was built in 1889 for an exhibition. The tower was thought to be only a temporary structure, although it still stands today.\n\nFrance is known for its fine food. French cooking is thought to be the best in the world. Chefs prepare dishes such as quiche, soufflés, mousse, pâté, croissants, crêpes, and French bread. Many people in France like to drink their hot chocolate from bowls and dip their bread into it.
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Definitely France. They get 76% of their electricity from nuclear generators.
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Hope I'm not too late !\n\n1) Only 5 school days in France\n\n2) Famous French people in history\n\nGeneral Charles De Gaulle : Lead the resistance against the german in WWII, then founded the 5th republic after the war\n\nVictor hugo (writer), Louis Pasteur (scientist), Emile Zola (writer, journalist, politician)\n\nThat is modern history, hope that helps
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http://crusades.boisestate.edu/Europe/france/05.shtml
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Australia, The UK, South Vietnam, Canada.France was there 1st and pussied out.
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The Romans called the area around Germany Germania after a tribe known as the Germani. After the 16th century, the English started applying this name to this area where the Germani lived. Some say that the root word meant neighbour or brother so the Germani were neighbours or brothers of the Celt.\n\nAfter the Germani drifted into obscurity, another tribe moved into the area, the Allemani, hence the French word for the country, Allemagne. The Germans call their country Deutchland derived from Old High German for "diutisc" meaning vulgar or vernacular thus people who speak a common vernacular and not latin
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The Gauls had Paris for ages, up until Hugh Capet became the Count of Paris, King of France in 987.\n  His successors, the Capetian's made Paris the capital as we know it today.
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AUSTRALIA\nThe name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times, and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638."\n\nASIA\n"The word Asia entered English via Latin from Ancient Greek, first attested in Herodotus, where it refers to Asia Minor, or for the purposes of the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire as opposed to Greece and Egypt. Homer knows a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and also describes a marsh as 461).\nThe Greek term was likely from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in ancient Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is a likely element in that name. Elamites numeous in the east called themselves As, and at least one Aryan people on the central Eurasian steppes called themselves Asi. Alternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word asu, which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Compare to this the suggestion for the etymology of Europe from Semitic erebu "to set". The motives for the names of Asia and Europe would thus mirror each other, much like the terms orient and occident (the names Anatolia and Levant likewise signify "sunrise"). This suggestion is widely quoted, but it suffers from the fact that Anatolia from an Akkadian or generally Semitic perspective does not lie in the east."\n\nAFRICA\n"The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.\nThe origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar, dust; \nthe Afri, a tribe—possibly Berber—who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area; \nthe Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold (see also List of traditional Greek place names); \nor the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny. \nThe historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) attributed the origin to the Greek word phrike (meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the first century, so this cannot really be the origin of the name.\n\nEgypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge\n\nEUROPE\n"In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos. For Homer, Europa was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece and by 500 BC its meaning was extended to lands to the north."\n\nTHE AMERICAS:\n"The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine na
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1. I have tried to answer your question, but I think you need to re-check your base data, because there are errors in your  question.\n(a) France has not had colonies in Africa since the 1960s. It converted some former colonies to overseas departments, but all its African possessions were given independence. \n(b) Cameroon had been a German colony, but after the First World War, the League of Nations gave part to the French for administration under mandate, and the other part to Britain. \n(c) There does not appear to be an African tribe called Nayak. \n\n2. The nearest Cameroonian tribal name to "Nayak" is Naki, however it is one of the smaller Cameroonian tribes with only 3,000 members. This webpage lists all the tribes in Cameroon, and you can check other countries on the site too.\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CM\n\n3. This webpage has an at-a-glance list of the larger tribes in the whole continent. \nhttp://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/index.htm
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a provence and a state are *essentially* the same...different names for different countries
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The hyper fair complexions of the red hair, freckles, etc are more prevalent with the older tribes of people from the far northern regions.....Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Scottish Highlands, Ireland.\nThere was a great deal of inner-breeding between the Vikings and Celts.\nHowever red hair has shown up in the Gauls.....originally said to have come from Galatia, the same Galatia in the Bible. \nAncient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey.\nThe Celts are also said to have possible origins with the these Gauls.
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Myanmar, officially the Union of Myanmar (also known as Burma or the Union of Burma by bodies and states who do not recognize the ruling military junta), is the largest country (in geographical area) in mainland Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Tibet and the People's Republic of China on the north, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the Andaman Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest. There are over 2,000 kilometres (1,243 mi) of coastline. The country was ruled by a military junta led by General Ne Win from 1962 to 1988, and its political system today remains under the tight control of its military government, since 1992, led by Senior General Than Shwe.
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Not sure whether I am on your wavelength, but ... if you are referring to the fabled Golden Age of earth it's the time that modern-day archaeologists try to ignore because it just doesn't fit with their text books. On the celtic shelf (prehistoric Britain) the ice-age was at its maximum around 20,000 BC, and then it began to slowly melt. Over the next 5000 years ice receded and the sea levels rose and Britain (still attached to continent) began to take shape. By 15,000 BC it was totally ice-free. The people of modern-day Northern France had followed the ice northwards and quickly populated this new land, and the flora and fauna flourished. The period that followed is the 4000 years that historians like to leave out of lectures and TV archaeologists conveniently ignore. Imagine 4000 years of temperate weather in a green verdant land, easily defendable therefore generally peaceful, a time of plenty. This period is equal to the time period from raising the stones at Stonehenge to the present day. In my opinion this is the Golden Age, however it didn't last, around 11,000 BC the snow and ice moved back in and the northern half of Britain and Ireland was once again frozen and glaciated - this chilly situation lasted for around 1500 years and is known as the Younger Dryas period (which ended abruptly in 9600 BC and that's another subject that I could go on for hours about), but I hope that helps with your question about the Golden Age.