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In Gallo - Roman ___MASK98___ , Loucetios ( Latinized as Leucetius ) was a Gallic god known from the Rhine - Moselle region , where he was invariably identified with the Roman Mars . Scholars have interpreted his name to mean `` lightning '' . Mars Loucetius was worshipped alongside the goddess Nemetona . The Gauls were Celtic peoples inhabiting Gaul in the Iron ___MASK18___ and the Roman period ( roughly from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD ). Their Gaulish language forms the main branch of the Continental Celtic languages . Germany , officially the Federal ___MASK44___ of Germany , is a federal parliamentary ___MASK44___ in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . Germany ' s ___MASK75___ and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Gallo - Roman ___MASK98___ was a fusion of the traditional religious practices of the Gauls , who were originally Celtic speakers , and the Roman and Hellenistic religions introduced to the region under Roman Imperial rule . It was the result of selective acculturation . The ___MASK19___ or Treviri were a Belgic tribe who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle from around 150 BCE , if not earlier , until their eventual absorption into the Franks . Their domain lay within the southern fringes of the " Silva Arduenna " ( Ardennes Forest ), a part of the vast Silva Carbonaria , in what are now Luxembourg , southeastern Belgium and western Germany ; its centre was the city of Trier (" Augusta Treverorum "), to which the ___MASK19___ give their name . Celtic in language , according to Tacitus they claimed Germanic ___MASK5___ . Nemetona , or  she of the sacred ___MASK34___ , is a Celtic goddess with roots in northeastern Gaul . She is thought to have been the eponymous ___MASK2___ of the Germano - Celtic people known as the Nemetes ; evidence of her veneration is found in their former territory along the Middle Rhine as well in the Altbachtal sanctuary in present - day Trier , Germany . She is also attested in Bath , England , where an altar to her was dedicated by a man of the Gallic Treveri people . Gaul ( Latin : " Gallia ") was a ___MASK30___ of Western Europe during the Iron ___MASK18___ that was inhabited by Celtic tribes , encompassing present day France , Luxembourg , Belgium , most of Switzerland , Northern Italy , as well as the parts of the Netherlands , Central Italy and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine . It covered an area of 190 , 800 mi² or 494 , 169 km² . According to the testimony of Julius Caesar , Gaul was divided into three parts : Gallia Celtica , Belgica and Aquitania . Archaeologically , the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture , which extended across all of Gaul , as well as east to Raetia , Noricum , Pannonia and southwestern Germania during the 5th to 1st centuries BC . During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC , Gaul fell under Roman rule : Gallia Cisalpina was conquered in 203 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC . Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons , who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC . Julius Caesar finally subdued the remaining parts of Gaul in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC . Acculturation is the ___MASK43___ of cultural ___MASK1___ and psychological ___MASK1___ that results following ___MASK7___ between cultures . The effects of acculturation can be seen at multiple levels in both interacting cultures . Acculturation is a direct ___MASK1___ of one ' s culture through dominance over another ' s culture through either ___MASK45___ or political conquest . At the group level , acculturation often results in changes to culture , customs , and social institutions . Noticeable group level effects of acculturation often include changes in ___MASK35___ , clothing , and language . At the individual level , differences in the way individuals acculturate have been shown to be associated not just with changes in daily ___MASK72___ , but with numerous measures of psychological and physical well - being . As enculturation is used to describe the ___MASK43___ of first - culture learning , acculturation can be thought of as second - culture learning . The Nemetes , by modern authors sometimes called Nemeti , were an ancient Germanic ___MASK9___ living by the Rhine where Ariovistus had led them , the Suebi and other allied Germanic peoples in the second quarter of the 1st century BC . The Roman name for Speyer , " Noviomagus Nemetum ", reflects this city ' s status as the Nemetes ' tribal ___MASK75___ . According to Tacitus , they were " unquestionably Germanic ". The name of the ___MASK9___ , however , is Celtic as the name of its main town " Noviomagus " meaning " noviios " ' new ' and " magos " ' plain ', ' market ' ( cf . Old Irish " mag " ' plain '), as are those of a number of gods worshipped in their territory , including Nemetona , who is thought to have been their eponymous ___MASK2___ . Both of these names derive from the Celtic root " nemeto -", referring to sacred spaces . Trier , formerly known in English as Treves , is a ___MASK56___ in Germany on the banks of the Moselle . Trier lies in a ___MASK32___ between low vine - covered hills of red ___MASK3___ in the west of the state of Rhineland - Palatinate , near the ___MASK80___ with Luxembourg and within the important Moselle ___MASK100___ region .