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ALBERIX THE CELT BOOK 1. WEEP THE LONG SORROW

NOYER ALBERT

Editorial
INGRAM
Año edición
2014
ISBN
978-1-63210-000-9
Encuadernación
Rústica
Páginas
382
Idioma
Castellano
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in the spring of 58 BCE the Celtic tribe of Helvetii, then settled in present-day west -central Switzerland and pressured by Germanic tribes from across the Rhine River, voted to migrate to lands in Gaul near the Atlantic Ocean. Gaius Julius Caesar opposed their passage through a Roman province, subsequently defeating an army several times larger than his available legions. in eight campaign seasons, Caesar made Gaul part of Rome s growing empire: Roman institutions of government, law, and customs were veneered onto those of the Celts. The Gallo-Roman culture that prospered formed the matrix for much of modern European civilization. That long ago Helvetian decision was the determining factor in ending a millennium of Celtic dominance in Europe, yet the Roman conquest assured that when devastating barbarian invasions erupted in the third to sixth centuries, those Germanic and Gothic tribes eventually would become Latinized. This novel personalizes the Celtic struggle against Caesar by those tribesmen who op

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