Gaulle Aquitaine

Easily conquered by Crassus, lieutenant of Jules César into -54, the Gaulle Aquitaine is one of the three provinces (Aquitaine, Belgium and Lyonnaise) created by Auguste in 27 av. J. - C. of the Gaulle Roman (in addition to the Gaulle Narbonnese). Its territory initially limited to the triangle the Pyrenees - the Atlantic - the Garonne is increased by central part of Gaulle, to the Loire.

Gaulle Aquitaine was a imperial Province. The capital was successively:

Mediolanum Santonum (Holy), of the creation of the province at the end of the 1st century;
Burdigala (Bordeaux), as from the 3rd century, which had already acquired into 48 the prestigious statute of Municipe of Latin right.

One is unaware of which city was capital of Gaulle Aquitaine at the 2nd century: they were perhaps initially Saintes, then Bordeaux. It is also possible that Lemonum (Poitiers) was capital at that time.

Aquitaine thrived within the Roman Empire. One of the roads of the tin of Cornouailles via Armorique passed by Bordeaux then Toulouse and Narbonne. The Romans established the vine in the province, and of the craftsmen come from Arezzo launched the production of Céramique sigillée to Condatomagos (Graufesenque, close to Millau) then Lusonum (Lezoux, close to Thiers), reaching a level quasi-industrialist. Their production of quality was diffused widely in all Gaulle, in Brittany, in Italy and Germanic.

Under the Tétrarchie, Gaulle Aquitaine is divided into three provinces:

Aquitanian first (Massif Central and Berry),
Aquitanian second (area of Bordeaux, Charentes and Poitou)
Novempopulanie (country enters the Pyrenees and the Garonne),

all attached to the prefecture of the court of Gaules.

The province of Aquitaine is the cradle of several famous Gallo-Romans:

Tetricus, emperor as a Gaulle from 268 to 273,
the poet Ausone,
Avitus, emperor from 456 to 457,
Sidoine Apollinaire.

Devastated as the remainder of Gaulle by the cruel invasions after 406, Aquitaine second and Novempopulanie are occupied by the Visigoths, with the statute of federate starting from 418. They seize Aquitaine first in 475.

List ancient cities of Gaulle Aquitaine

The Romans developed in Aquitaine of many cities: Burdigala (remains of a amphitheater says Palais Gallien); Vesuna (Périgueux, remainders of an amphitheater and a Gallo-Roman temple); Mediolanum Santonum (Holy, vestiges of a Amphitheater and a Triumphal arch); Divona Cadurcorum , (Cahors, vestiges of a theater ransacked with the XIX ème century, thermal baths known as of the Arc of Diane, and currently excavations of an amphitheater); Limonum (Poitiers); Avaricum (Bourges); Augustonemetum (Clermont-Ferrand); Aginnum (Agen); Augustoritum (Limoges); Saint-Gaudens, etc

See too

Roman Governor

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