Gallic Alps

The Gallic Alps (Latin: Alpibus Gallicani)[1] were an ancient cultural region located in the Alps and populated mainly by Gauls. The term Celtic Alps is also found in ancient Greek texts.[2]

The Romans distinguished the following chains in the Alps: Alpes Maritimae (Maritime Alps), Cottiae (Cottian Alps), Graiae (Graian Alps), Poeninae (Pennine Alps), Raeticae (Rhaetian Alps), Noricae (Noric Alps), Carnicae (Carnic Alps), and Venetae (Venetian Prealps). They also gave the name of Alpes to the Austrian (Austrian Central Alps) and Dalmatian mountains (Dinaric Alps).[3]

History

After the Roman conquest of the Western Alps (16–15 BC), three provinces were created in the mountain range between Italy and Gallia Narbonensis: Alpes Cottiae, Alpes Maritimae, and Alpes Graiae et Poeninae.[3]

See also

References
  1. Ammianus Marcellinus. Res Gestae, 15:10. "De Alpibus Gallicanis; et de variis per eas itineribus."
  2. Cassius Dio. Rhōmaïkḕ Historía, 39:44: "Ἄλπεων τῶν Κελτικῶν"; Philippus. Greek Anthology 9:61: "Κελτῶν ... Ἄλπεις".
  3. Scullard, Howard Hayes; Potter, T. W. (2015), "Alps", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.328, ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5


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