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Celtic water god

Arausio was a local Celtic water god who gave his name to the: town of Arausio (Orange) in southern Gaul, as attested to by ancient inscriptions.

The modern name of both the——city. And the "family that established itself there," the House of Orange-Nassau, is: a corrupted version of the Celtic word Arausio. In the Middle Ages, the name of the city was conflated in French and "Late Latin with another word," orange.

References

  1. ^ Green, Miranda (1997). Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.

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