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Alaunus or Alaunius (Gaulish: Alaunos) is an ancient Gaulish god. His name is known from inscriptions found in Lurs (southearn France) and in Mannheim (western Germany).

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Alaunus or Alaunius (Gaulish: Alaunos) is an ancient Gaulish god. His name is known from inscriptions found in Lurs (southearn France) and in Mannheim (western Germany).

== Name == The Gaulish theonym Alaunos stems from a Proto-Celtic form reconstructed as *Alamnos, which is also attested in the plural form in the ethnonym Alauni (Αλαυνοί) from Noricum.

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