Gallic

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Gallic is an adjective that may describe:

• ancient Gaul (Latin: Gallia), roughly corresponding to the territory of modern France
  • pertaining to the Gauls
  • Roman Gaul (1st century BC to 5th century)
  • Gallic Empire (260–273)
  • Frankish Gaul
    (5th to 8th centuries)
  • A Latinism for France, the French people, and their customs
• Gallic epoch, an obsolete epoch of the Cretaceous
• pertaining to gall, a formation induced by a parasite in plants,
  • hence the name gallic acid, for a phenolic compound found in these formations

'Gallic' is also a proper noun naming the following ships:

• SS Gallic (1894), a paddle wheel steamship
• SS Gallic (1918), a cargo steamship

See also

• Gaulish
• Gallican
• Galician (disambiguation)
• Gaelic (disambiguation)
• Gallium, a chemical element
• Galik script
  , a variation of the traditional Mongolian script
• Gallica (disambiguation)
• Gallicism

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