Ancient Gaul

[Franconicus]

Does anybody know where I can find a map or so about the roads at Gaul in the time of Cesar's campaign?

[Louis VI the Fat]

[Franconicus]

Mercy beaucoup!
Where are the roads? Cesar mentioned that Gaul had, unlike Germania, some good roads.

[Fisherking]

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/art...ient_world.htm

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/art...aul_800pix.jpg

There are no roads shown but it would be a reasonable assumption that the major towns were linked.

The Gauls were into trade in a major way.

That trade and plunder was why Caesar was there in the first place.

[Samurai Waki]

The fondness the Romans had for roads would mean there's a pretty good chance routes between major trade centers would roughly correlate to similar routes Gallic Merchants would have used.

[Brandy Blue]

Mercy beaucoup!
Where are the roads? Cesar mentioned that Gaul had, unlike Germania, some good roads.

The roads aren't marked there. Louis is joking. That map is from a comic book.

This web article I've linked below might interest you - or maybe not. It doesn't give a map, but does tell the names of four cities which were connected by a road even before the Gauls got there. "It leads from modern Amiens to Bavay, Tongeren, and Cologne – in other words, it connected the capitals of the Atrebates, Nervians, Tungrians, and Ubians, the main ethnic units of Gallia Belgica at the time of the Roman conquest." Julius Caesar used it, so it was still there.

http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/200...northern-gaul/

[Franconicus]

I know Asterix very well - the most reliable source of ancient Gaul in deed. However, there are no raods not even in Tour de France.

Thank you all!

[Samurai Waki]

I got on my google-fu today and found at least one map that might be up your alley.

This one has roads/trade routes

http://larocheusa.org/gaul.jpg

Edit: This was really the best one I found in a limited amount of search time. It appears to use both Gallic names and Latin ones, so it's probably post Roman Conquest (Actually the town of Augustodinum is a dead give away) anyhow, everything still looks up to snuff, they even took care to name different tribal areas etc.

[Fisherking]

I got on my google-fu today and found at least one map that might be up your alley.

This one has roads/trade routes

http://larocheusa.org/gaul.jpg

Edit: This was really the best one I found in a limited amount of search time. It appears to use both Gallic names and Latin ones, so it's probably post Roman Conquest (Actually the town of Augustodinum is a dead give away) anyhow, everything still looks up to snuff, they even took care to name different tribal areas etc.

Good find!

In the same vane but without graphics, here is a little article touching on the topic of Celtic Roads.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article714033.ece