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the British Seas. The Garonne is navigable as far as _Toulouse_, and communicates with the Mediterranean by means of the great canal, G. i. 1 Garumni, an ancient people of Gaul, in the neighbourhood of the _Garonne_, G. iii. 27 Geld[=u]ra, a fortress of the Ubii, on the Rhine, not improbably the present village of _Gelb_, on that river eleven German miles from N[=e]us Gen[)a]bum, _Orleans_, an ancient town in Gaul, famous for the massacre of the Roman citizens committed there by the Carn[=u]tes Gen[=e]va, a city of Savoy, now a free republic, upon the borders of Helvetia, where the Rhone issues from the Lake Lemanus, anciently a city of the Allobr[)o]ges Gen[=u]sus, a river of Macedonia, uncertain Gerg[=o]via, the name of two cities in ancient Gaul, the one belonging to the Boii, the other to the Arverni. The latter was the only Gallic city which baffled the attacks of Caesar Gerg[=o]via of the Averni, Vercingetorix expelled thence by Gobanitio, G. vii. 4; the Romans attacking it eagerly, are repulsed with great slaughter, 50 Gerg[=o]via of the Boii, besieged in vain by Vercingetorix, G. vii. 9 Germania, _Germany_, one of the largest countries of Europe, and the mother of those nations which, on the fall of the Roman empire, conquered all the rest. The name appears to be derived from _wer_, war, and _man_, a man, and signifies the country of warlike men Germans, habituated from their infancy to arms, G. i. 36; their manner of training their cavalry, 48; their superstition 50; defeated by Caesar, 53; their manners, religion, vi. 23; their huge stature and strength, G. i. 39 G[=e]tae, an ancient people of Scythia, who inhabited betwixt Moesia and Dacia, on each side of the Danube. Some think their country the same with the present _Walachia_, or _Moldavia_ Getulia, a province in the kingdom of Morocco, in Barbary Gomphi, a town in Thessaly, _Gonfi_, refusing to open its gates to Caesar, is stormed and taken, C. iii. 80 Gord[=u]ni, a people of Belgium, the ancient inhabitants of _Ghent_, according to others of _Courtray_; they join with Ambiorix in his attack of Cicero's camp, G. v. 39 Got[=i]ni, an ancient people of Germany, who were driven out of their country by Maroboduus Graecia, _Greece,_ a large part of Europe, called by the Turks _Rom[=e]lia,_ containing many countries, provinces, and islands, once the nursery of arts, learning, and sciences Graioc[)e]li, see _Garoceli_ Grud
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