Isn't It a Roman Province?

Kiss alpine gaul, which means gaul this side of the alps. That's what we think of as northern italy. It was caesar himself who made that technicall part of italy. Once his consulship is over, where is caesar sent? He s gaul. So he gets kis alpin gal y, and he gets what people often forget illyricum, which is that little beautiful strip of coast line broadly modern croatia. But at this point, that's the northern reaches of the empire.