Septimania
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Septimania is a historical region in modern-day Southern France. It referred to the western part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed to the control of the Visigoths in 462 CE, when
Military campaigns and geopolitical situation in southern Gaul (740)
Septimania during Pepin's expedition and conquest (752–759)
Arab and Berber Muslim troops retreating from Narbonne after the Frankish conquest of Septimania in 759. Illustration by Émile Bayard, 1880.
Expansion of the Frankish Empire: Realm of Pepin the Short in 758 Conquests under Charlemagne until 814 Marches and dependencies Papal States Byzantine Empire
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
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)