A. Location
The Roman province in northern Italy borders on the Alps in the north and west, the Apennines in the south and the Adriatic in the east. Traversed by the Padus (Po) (Gallia Transpadana to the north and Gallia Cispadana to the south of the Padus), Gallia Cisalpina (GC) was identified with the Po valley (latissima pars Italiae, Tac. Hist. 1,70,1).
In antiquity the geomorphological structure of GC was in many respects quite different from today, e…