transalpina

Updated: May 11, 2025

For the new names which we find in Italy and elsewhere, have no other origin than in their having been given by these new occupants; as when the countries formerly known as Gallia Cisalpina and Gallia Transalpina took the names of Lombardy and France, from the Lombards and the Franks who settled themselves there.

Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius