# Gallien

Gallien is a German proper name meaning “Gaul (a historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine)”.

## In other languages

- Русский: истор. Галлия

## Meanings

1. _historical_ Gaul (a historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine)
   - „Keltische Kriegerscharen fielen, von Gallien kommend, in Italien ein, die Römer stellten sich ihnen in der Schlacht an der Allia und erlitten eine katastrophale Niederlage.“

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