"Aquitania" redirects here. For other uses, see Aquitania (disambiguation).
Provincia Gallia Aquitania Province des Gaules, Aquitaine
Province of the Roman Empire
27 BC–5th century
The province of Gallia Aquitania within the Roman Empire, c. 125 AD
Capital
Mediolanum Santonum (later moved to Burdigala)
Historical era
Antiquity
• Established after the Gallic Wars
27 BC
• Visigoth conquest
5th century
Succeeded by
Aquitania Prima
Aquitania Secunda
Novempopulania
Today part of
France
The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled 117-138 AD), showing, in southwestern Gaul, the imperial province of Gallia Aquitania (Aquitaine, Fr.)
Gallia Aquitania (/ˈɡæliəˌækwɪˈteɪniə/, Latin:[ˈɡalːi.aakᶣiːˈtaːni.a]),[1] also known as Aquitaine or Aquitaine Gaul, was a province of the Roman Empire. It lies in present-day southwest France, where it gives its name to the modern region of Aquitaine. It was bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis.[2]
^Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879). "Aquitania". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University.
^John Frederick Drinkwater (1998). "Gaul (Transalpine)". The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford University Press. Oxford Reference Online.
GalliaAquitania (/ˈɡæliə ˌækwɪˈteɪniə/, Latin: [ˈɡalːi.a akᶣiːˈtaːni.a]), also known as Aquitaine or Aquitaine Gaul, was a province of the Roman Empire...
of the three parts of Gaul (Tres Galliæ), the other two being GalliaAquitania and Gallia Lugdunensis. An official Roman province was later created by...
Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes and Gironde. GalliaAquitania was established by the Romans in ancient times and in the Middle Ages...
a successor state to the Roman province of GalliaAquitania and the Visigothic Kingdom (418–721), Aquitania (Aquitaine) and Languedoc (Toulouse) inherited...
Emperor Augustus, the province of GalliaAquitania was created. GalliaAquitania was far larger than the original Aquitania, as it extended north of the Garonne...
reorganization of the Empire in c. AD 314 merged the provinces Gallia Narbonensis and GalliaAquitania into a new administrative unit called Dioecesis Viennensis...
became emperor, Agricola was made a patrician and appointed governor of GalliaAquitania. In 77, he was made consul and governor of Britannia. As governor,...
southwestern France in the 1st century BCE. The Romans dubbed this region GalliaAquitania. Classical authors such as Julius Caesar and Strabo clearly distinguish...
boundary with Gallia Belgica, to the river Garonne in the south-west, which formed the border with GalliaAquitania. Under Augustus, Gallia Lugdunensis...
284 to 305) out of GalliaAquitania, which was also called Aquitania Tertia. The area of Novempopulania was first named Aquitania, as it was where the...
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of Gaul was reorganised establishing the provinces of GalliaAquitania, Gallia Belgica and Gallia Lugdunensis. Parts of eastern Gaul were incorporated...
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the Roman Republic, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène...
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the settlement of the Visigoths under King Wallia in the province of GalliaAquitania in southwest Gaul by the Roman government and then extended by conquest...
Claudius Gothicus, re-established Roman authority in Gallia Narbonensis and parts of GalliaAquitania; there is some evidence that the provinces of Hispania...
(excluding its northwestern corner) but also GalliaAquitania and the greater part of an as-yet undivided Gallia Narbonensis. Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter...
Honorius rewarded his Visigothic federates by giving them land in GalliaAquitania on which to settle after they had attacked the four tribes—Suebi, Asding...
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