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The name ''Gall-ikos'' also indicates the presence of [[Celt|Celts]] as ''Gall'' is the equivalent Greek word for the Latin ''Gaul'' and English ''Celt''; who [[Herodotus]] claimed inhabited from this point back to the [[Bosporus]] and [[Hellespont]], being the then Thracians<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.3.1-5.9.1</ref>. Smith believes the name changed due to the presence of the city of [[Gallicium]] "on the Roman road to Stobi"<ref>Smith, William, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'', 1854, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:id=echidorus-geo</ref>.
The name ''Gall-ikos'' also indicates the presence of [[Celt|Celts]] as ''Gall'' is the equivalent Greek word for the Latin ''Gaul'' and English ''Celt''; who [[Herodotus]] claimed inhabited from this point back to the [[Bosporus]] and [[Hellespont]], being the then Thracians<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.3.1-5.9.1</ref>. Smith believes the name changed due to the presence of the city of [[Gallicium]] "on the Roman road to Stobi"<ref>Smith, William, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'', 1854, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:id=echidorus-geo</ref>.
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