After reading a bad Wapedia Mobile article, I tried to send an email to correct the glaring errors, but it bounced:
For starters, the Gauls didn't found cities, they founded oppida, or fortified hill forts that later evolved into civitas under Roman occupation.
Tolouse was the region of the Aquitani Volcae Tectosages, a fierce Celtic confederation. There's a famous tale in a classical text that tells of the enormous gold stores in a lake that one chief had stolen.They also got around. Like to the Ballkans and Anatolia. Some say they were the Galatians that St Paul got so worked up over their feasting, fighting and fecking that he wrote a flame letter to them to change their evil ways.
Masallia (Marseilles) was a trading post founded by Greeks in the 6th c. BC to trade with the wine loving Celts (Princess of Vix krater held more than 50 gallons of wine) along the Rhone River region....
Anyone can write and post an article on Wiki....no scholarship credentials needed. Always check your sources as it does us little good to continue to promulgate such blatantly wrong information. It comes back to haunt us in weird ways.
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