Gallia Aquitania
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Gallia Aquitania, also known as Aquitaine or Aquitaine Gaul, was a province of the Roman Empire. It lay in present-day southwest France and the comarca of Val d'Aran in northeast Spain, where it gave
Sestertius of Hadrian found in the Garonne near Burdigala, from a shipwreck of 155/56 AD
Visigothic Kingdom
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The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths was a barbarian kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th century. One of
Gallia Aquitania
…of hospitalitas (i.e. the Roman legal framework under which civilians were required to provide quarters to soldiers). However, in 418, an independent Visigothic Kingdom was formed from parts of Novempopulania and Aquitania Secunda. The death of the general Aëtius (454) and a worsening debility on the part of the western…
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Theodoric I by Fabrizio Castello (1560–1617)
Clovis I fights the Visigoths
Visigothic pseudo-imperial gold tremissis in the name of Emperor Justinian I, 6th century: the Christian cross on the breast defines the Visigothic attribution. (British Museum)