Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina), also called Gallia Citerior
or Gallia Togata, was a Roman province until 41 BC, when it was
merged into Roman Italy. It was that part of Gallia, the land of
the Gauls, which lay south and east of the Alps, as opposed to
Gallia Transalpina. Its inhabitants were primarily Celtic since
the expulsion of the Etruscans. It corresponds roughly to the
current northern Italy. The province was bounded on the north
and west by the Alps, in the south as far as Placentia by the
river Po, and then by the Apennines and the river Rubicon, and
in the east by the Adriatic Sea. In 49 BC all inhabitants of
Cisalpine Gaul received Roman citizenship, and eventually the
province was divided among four of the eleven regiones of Italy:
Regio VIII Gallia Cispadana, Regio IX Liguria, Regio X Venetia
et Histria and Regio XI Gallia Transpadana. The Roman province
Sometimes referred to as Gallia Citerior ("Hither Gaul"),
Provincia Ariminum, or Gallia Togata ("Toga-wearing Gaul",
indicating the region's