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Province, 117 CE

Gallia Aquitania

Imperial province, praetorian legateCapital: Burdigala

Southwestern Gaul between the Garonne and the Pyrenees, the province Caesar described as ethnically distinct from the rest of Gaul — closer, he thought, to the Iberians across the mountains. Burdigala (Bordeaux) sat on the Garonne's tidal reach and was already shipping wine north by the second century, the start of a trade the region never abandoned.

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Sources

  • Caesar, Gallic War 1.1
  • Barrington Atlas

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