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Province, 117 CE

Gallia Narbonensis

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: NarboRoman since 121 BCE

The oldest Roman territory in Gaul, organized as a province in 121 BCE — two centuries Roman by 117 CE, and it showed. Pliny the Elder called it more like Italy than a province: villas, vineyards and a Senate seat rather than a legion. Narbo (Narbonne) gave the province its name; Massilia, an older Greek colony, kept a special semi-autonomous status inside it.

Organized as a province in 121 BCE after Rome's victory over the Allobroges and Arverni — the oldest Roman territory in Gaul, two centuries Roman by 117 CE.

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Sources

  • Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3.31

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