Search results for "Gaul" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of the papacy over the churches of Gaul and Spain and made significant ... ===Rome's authority in Gaul and Spain=== Hilarius continued and ...
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  • Hilarius, was bishop of Poitiers in Gaul (today's France) and ... in the Western Church, especially in Gaul, where Arian Christians had ...
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  • His chief aides were gladiators from Gaul and Germania, named Crixus ... By spring, they marched north towards Gaul. ===Rome reacts=== ...
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  • The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area, largely corresponding to ancient Gaul, from the fifth ...
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  • I. At about the same time, John Cassian of Gaul wrote a treatise against Nestorius ... concerning the Bishop Hilary of Arles in Gaul, who claimed the right at ...
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  • Caligula, who sent him into exile in Gaul. Accompanied there by Herodias ... is given by Josephus as "Lugdunum" in Gaul. Josephus, Antiquities ...
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  • did not move against Marcian. The bishops of Gaul then turned to Cyprian and moved him to write to Stephen, which he accordingly did (Ep. 66). Cyprian ...
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  • Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397, Candes, Gaul) was a bishop of Tours who has become one of the most famous ...
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  • deemed it one of the most beautiful cities in Gaul. Saint Ursin brought ... sheltered the first Christian community in Gaul. Successive monumental crypts ...
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  • Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern Gaul, east and northeast of the ... half of the empire, including Hispania, Gaul, and Italy, eventually broke ...
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  • The Roman leader Julius Caesar conquered Gaul and was responsible for the first Roman invasion of Britannia in 55 B.C.E. At the time of his invasion ...
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  • incorporating most of Hispania and southern Gaul. They reached their zenith ... practically extended over a large part of Gaul and over nearly the whole ...
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  • Dionysius was also popularly misidentified with the martyr of Gaul, Dionysius, the first Bishop of Paris, Saint Denis. ==Identity of Pseudo-Dionysius ...
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  • to the kings. They were suppressed in Gaul and Britain after the Roman ... that all men of any rank and dignity in Gaul were included either among ...
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  • of the staff of Caesar's armies in Gaul and early Germany. He again ... of northern and central Transalpine Gaul (Gallia Coata) and of Cisalpine ...
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  • groups of tribes in the Iberian Peninsula and Gaul. Although today ... century C.E., Strabo deals with Britain and Gaul as well as Spain, Italy and ...
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  • Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul south of the Alps; present-day northern Italy). Virgil was of non ...
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  • the Roman possessions in northern Gaul. Although they were victorious ... Similarly, Romans saw various Germanic, Gaul, and Hun tribes as essentially ...
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  • Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and Gaul, and ushers in a period of ... Kay, Bedivere, and Gawain--defeat Lucius in Gaul. As Arthur prepares to march ...
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  • about how Caesar was in Rome on one date and in Gaul on a later date. Though no mention is made of Caesar’s journey to Gaul, the historian naturally ...
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  • Spain, Africa, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Gaul, Liguria, North Africa, and ... In Gaul, he studied the Celts. He left vivid descriptions of things ...
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  • on the second invasion; he marched through Gaul (modern day France) as far ... [[Image:Attila-in-Gaul.png|thumb|250px|left|Map of Attila's campaigns ...
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  • enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul. With Ursicinus he went twice ... Julian had been promoted to commander in Gaul. Book 17 follows Julian’s ...
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  • their territorium south and west into Gaul. Clovis converted to Roman ... near the Frankish heartland in northeastern Gaul. Theuderic I made his capital ...
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  • Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium ... career and to pay off his debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military ...
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  • to found an Egyptian style monastery in southern Gaul, near Marseille. His foundation, the abbey of St. Victor, a complex of monasteries for both men ...
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  • founded. In 759, he drove the Saracens out of Gaul with the capture of Narbonne and then consolidated his power further by integrating Aquitaine into ...
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  • Around that time, the bishops in Gaul were drawn from the great territorial ... of the papacy of Rome with the churches of Gaul, Spain, and northern Italy ...
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  • Most of today's historians agree that it originated in Gaul around 500. A need for a clear confession against Arianism—going even beyond ...
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  • some of his cavalry escaped. Catus Decianus fled to Gaul. ... to battle. Catus Decianus, who had fled to Gaul, was replaced by Gaius Julius ...
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  • of the dignity and powers of a papal legate for Gaul. ===The Three Chapters controversy=== In the meantime, new dogmatic difficulties had been ...
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  • as governor of Illyria and Cisalpine Gaul. ==Cato in Cyprus== ... trying to force the recall of Caesar from Gaul, from where Caesar had illegally ...
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  • in 272-273. Aurelian and his forces thus left Gaul and arrived in Syria. The forces of Aurelian and Zenobia met and fought near Antioch. After a ...
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  • Illyrian provinces and retired to Trier in Gaul to let Theodosius operate ... in his residence in the town of Vienne in Gaul. The Frankish soldier and ...
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  • of Western civilization. His conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world all ... term as Proconsular Governor of Transalpine Gaul (current southern France) ...
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  • (c. 245) of seven bishops as missionaries to Gaul: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denys to Paris ...
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  • into the Frankish territories of Gaul, former provinces of the Roman ... The Invasion of Hispania, and then Gaul, was led by the Umayyad Dynasty ( ...
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  • Caesar in his De Bello Gallico (Battle for Gaul) (book 6) speaks of the Hercynian ... * Caesar, Julius, Anne Wiseman, and T.P. Wiseman. The Battle for Gaul ...
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  • him to exile, probably in what is now Lyon (Gaul). The emperor offered Herodias the possibility to return in Judea to live at the court of her ...
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  • in 356, during his first campaign in Gaul. The following summer he along ... In the fourth year of his campaign in Gaul, the Sassanid Emperor Shapur ...
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  • of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820. (Middle Ages series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0812231861 ...
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  • [[Image:Map Gallia Tribes Towns.png|right|thumb|350px|Map of Gaul ... magistrate. Among the Aedui, a tribe of Gaul, the executive held the title ...
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  • 54 B.C.E. as an offshoot of his conquest of Gaul, believing the Britons had ... paid by the Britons after Caesar's return to Gaul. ...
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  • Chalons (the "Catalaunian fields") in Gaul (451). On the eve of the main encounter between allied hordes, the Gepids and Franks met each other ...
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  • the fourth century. Julius Caesar, traveling in Gaul, found it useful to fold his scrolls concertina-style for quicker reference, as the Chinese ...
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  • , a monk and ascetic writer of Southern Gaul and founder of the abbey of Saint-Victor at Marseille, is often regarded as the originator of Semi ...
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  • known act as pope, sent legates to the emperor in Gaul asking him to hold a council at Aquileia, Italy, to discuss Athanasius. Constantius, however ...
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  • place its origin as late as fifth century Gaul. The earliest known concrete historical evidence of the creed's existence, as it is currently ...
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  • In 384 C.E., Egeria, a pilgrim from either Gaul or Spain, was given a personal tour by the Bishop of Edessa, who gave her many marvellous accounts ...
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  • throughout Hispania and into southern Gaul. While Crassus was facing ... Caesar secured his proconsular command in Gaul at the end of his consular ...
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