Gaule Aquitaine

Gaul Aquitaine in the Roman Empire, around 120

Gaul, Aquitaine is one of three Roman provinces (with Belgium and Lyon ) created by Augustus in 27 BC. AD from the Roman Gaul (in addition to Narbonne Gaul ). The territory of the ancient Aquitaine , limited to the triangle Pyrenees - Atlantic - Garonne, easily captured by Crassus , a lieutenant of Julius Caesar in 55 BC. AD , is thus increased by a central part of Gaul, to the Loire.

Capitals

Gaul was a aquitaine imperial province. Its capital was successively:

• Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes), creating the province at the end of the ^first century ;
• Burdigala (Bordeaux), from the ^third century , who had already acquired 48 the prestigious status of municipality of Roman law.

It is unclear which city was the capital of Gaul in aquitaine ^second century : it was perhaps first Saintes and Bordeaux. It is also possible that Lemonum ( Poitiers ) has been crucial at this time.

Cities

The Romans developed many towns in Aquitaine: Burdigala (rest of the Palais Gallien said amphitheater ); Vesuna ( Perigueux , the remains of an amphitheater and a Gallo-Roman temple); Santonum Mediolanum ( Saintes , remains of an amphitheater , the Arc de Germanicus , baths and an aqueduct ( Fontcouverte ) Divona Cadurcorum ( Cahors , ransacked ruins of a theater in the nineteenth ^century , baths said the Arc de Diane, and current excavations an amphitheater); Limonum ( Poitiers ); Avaricum ( Bourges ); Augustonemetum ( Clermont-Ferrand ); Aginnum ( Agen ); Augustoritum ( Limoges ); Iculisma ( Angouleme ); Aquae Tarbellicae ( Dax ), etc..

Economy

Aquitaine flourished within the Roman Empire. One of the roads through the tin of Cornwall Armorica passed through Bordeaux and Toulouse and Narbonne. Romans implanted vines in the province, and craftsmen came from Arezzo launched the production of terra sigillata in Condatomagos ( The Graufesenque near Millau) then Lusonum ( Lezoux near Thiers), reaching a quasi-industrial. Their production quality is widely diffused throughout Gaul, Britain, Italy and Germany.

Like all the provinces of Gaul, the campaigns were largely run by villa owners and farmers. City of Burdigala II ^and the mid ^third century experienced a major boom. She counted, then 20 000-25 000 ^Division

Under the tetrarchy , Gaul Aquitaine is divided into three provinces:

• Aquitaine first (Massif Central and Berry)
• Second Aquitaine (Bordeaux region, Poitou Charentes)
• Novempopulania (country between the Pyrenees and the Garonne)

all connected in the diocese of Wiener (then Diocese of Seven Provinces), part of the praetorian prefecture of Gaul.

Invasion

Ravaged like the rest of Gaul by the barbarian invasions after 406 , the second and Aquitaine Novempopulania are occupied by the Visigoths , with the status of Federated from 418. They seized the first of Aquitaine 475.

Personalities

The province of Aquitaine is the birthplace of several famous Gallo-Roman:

• Tetricus , emperor in Gaul from 268 to 273,
• the poet Ausonius ,
• Avitus , emperor from 456 to 457,
• Sidonius Apollinaris.

References

See also

• Roman Governor

• Ancient Rome portal
• Portal Occitan
• Portal Aquitaine
• Portal Poitou-Charentes

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