area of 494,000 km2. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. This material culture was found throughout Gaul and as far east as modern-day southern Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the collapse of the Western Roman empire. Already in 387 BC warbands led by the Gaul Brennos