Quadragesima Galliarum
''Quadragesima Galliarum'' (lit. "Gallic one-fortieth"), also written ''XXXX Galliarum'' or ''XL Galliarum'', was a 2.5% tax charged on trade in the Roman Gaul, Gallic provinces of the Roman Empire. It was a customs-duty tax on all incoming and outgoing goods in land and sea frontiers in addition to other inland ports. The stopping points on the borders, called ''Fines'' or ''Ad Fines'', were the partitions at which this tax was extracted. Collection of the tax was left to the equites, equestrian Procurator (Ancient Rome), procurators whose job it was to assess the tax, collect it, and make money available to the armies at the Rhine. Collecting was of greater concern to the procurators of Gallia Lugdunensis, Lugdunensis than to the other Gallic provinces as Lugdunum (now Lyon, France) was the main trading hub of the region. The bureaucracy surrounding the ''Quadragesima Galliarum'' grew in size and complexity over the centuries. Although it had outposts scattered across the count ...
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Roman Gaul
Roman Gaul refers to GaulThe territory of Gaul roughly corresponds to modern-day France, Belgium and Luxembourg, and adjacient parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. under provincial rule in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. History During the Republic The Roman Republic's influence began in southern Gaul. By the mid-2nd century BC, Rome was trading heavily with the Greek colony of Massalia, Massilia (modern Marseille) and entered into an alliance with them, by which it agreed to protect the town from local Gauls, including the nearby Aquitani and from sea-borne Carthaginians and other rivals, in exchange for land that it wanted in order to build a road to Hispania, to assist in troop movements to its provinces there. The Mediterranean settlements on the coast continued to be threatened by the powerful Gallic tribes to the north and in 122 BC the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 122 BC), Gnaeus Domitius Ahenoba ...
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