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Gallia -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 31069
Housing Units (2000): 13498
Land area (2000): 468.777081 sq. miles (1214.127014 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.357820 sq. miles (6.106726 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 471.134901 sq. miles (1220.233740 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.835402 N, 82.281986 W
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Gallia (disambiguation)

Gallia or Gallian may refer to:

  • Gaul (Gallia in Latin), the region of Western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium and other neighbouring countries. In Roman administrative terminology this contained several Provincia:

::* Gallia Cisalpina, meaning "Gaul on this side of the Alps", propraetorial province (merged with Italy ca. 42 BC). Sometimes referred to as Gallia Citerior (Hither Gaul), Provincia Ariminum, or Gallia Togata (Toga-wearing Gaul, indicating the region's early Romanization).

::::*Gallia Transpadana denoted that part of Cisalpine Gaul between the Padus (now Po) and the Alps

::::*Gallia Cispadana denoted that part of Cisalpine Gaul to the south of the river Padus (Po).

::* Gallia Narbonensis, also known as Gallia Transalpina (Transalpine Gaul), meaning "Gaul on the other side of the Alps".

::* Gallia Comata (divided in 22 BC)

  • Gauls, the pre-Roman inhabitants of Gaul
  • Gaulish language
  • Gallia, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Gallia County, Ohio, a county in southern Ohio in the United States
  • 148 Gallia, an asteroid
  • Gallia (goddess), a Gaulish goddess mentioned in an inscription found at the site of Vindolanda
  • Gallia (novel), an 1895 novel by Ménie Muriel Dowie
  • Gallia, a fictional comet, setting for most of Jules Verne's Off on a Comet
  • Gallia, a country in Nintendo's video games Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
  • Gallia, the setting for Valkyria Chronicles, a video game produced by Sega for the PlayStation 3 console
  • Gallians, alumni of Lawrence College, Murree
Gallia (goddess)

Gallia was a Romano-Gallic goddess, possibly related to the region of Europe known to the Romans as Gallia ( Gaul). The only evidence of her name to date is an altar set up at Vindolanda by its auxiliary garrison of the 4th cohort of Gauls, stationed there from the early 3rd century onwards. Its inscription reads:

Of which a free translation would be "The troops from Gaul dedicate this statue to the goddess Gallia with the full support of the British born troops".

Gallia (novel)

Gallia is an 1895 novel written by Ménie Muriel Dowie. It is usually categorised as a New Woman novel.

Gallia (gens)

The gens Gallia was a plebeian family at Rome. Several members of this gens are mentioned during the first century BC.

Usage examples of "gallia".

Before they started, Professor Rosette requested that one of the men might be ordered to cut him a cubic decimeter out of the solid substance of Gallia.

A Latin poem, de prima expeditione Attilae, Regis Hunnorum, in Gallias, was published in the year 1780, by Fischer at Leipsic.

It was, perhaps, only natural that this clustered mass of birds, as representing the whole of the feathered tribe upon the surface of Gallia, should resort to Gourbi Island, of which the meadows seemed to be the only spot from which they could get sustenance at all.

Shamed by Amidala's bitter accusation, and alerted to possible war - like actions from the Federation by Jedi Knight Adi Gallia, Valorum takes the biggest political risk of his career - without the consent or even the knowledge of the Senate, he calls on the Jedi Council for help.

The writer of it was evidently engaged upon a calculation, probably continued from day to day, as to the motions of the planet Gallia upon its orbit, and committing the results of his reckonings to the waves as the channel of communication.