The Gallic Alps (Latin: Alpibus Gallicanis)[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), Alpes Cottiae (Cottian Alps), Alpes Graiae (Graian Alps), Alpes Poeninae (Pennine Alps), Alpes Raeticae (Rhaetian Alps), Alpes Noricae (Noric Alps), Alpes Carnicae (Carnic Alps), and Alpes Venetae (Venetian Prealps). They also gave the name of Alpes to the Austrian (Austrian Central Alps) and Dalmatian mountains (Dinaric Alps).[3]
^Ammianus Marcellinus. Res Gestae, 15:10. "De Alpibus Gallicanis; et de variis per eas itineribus."
^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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