| 释义 |
‖ gau|gaʊ|
[G.]
A territorial and administrative division of ancient Germany, including several villages or communities; in the Middle Ages, a larger division, over which, under Frankish rule, was placed a graf.
The word is a frequent final element of place-names, as Breisgau, Oberammergau.
1845B. Thorpe tr. Lappenberg's Hist. Eng. I. 88 In the time of Charlemagne, they [sc. the Saxons] were in possession of..the ‘gaus’, or districts, of the later Upper and Lower Saxony. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. §26 The four [sc. marks] were in a.d. 804 made into a Gau, in which the archbishop of Bremen had the royal rights of Heerbann and Blutbann. 1916E. G. A. Holmes Nemesis of Docility i. 19 The counts..were supposed to..keep order in their own gaus or ‘shires’. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VI. 257 The people looked for protection to the local ruler rather than the reigning prince, to the count of the district (Gau) and to the tribal duke. |