Gauls

The Gauls or Gallic people were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine, and the western parts of Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They mostly spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish and dominated West-Central Europe from the 5th to the 1st centuries BC.